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Fox news exec to staff: Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’
« on: September 28, 2016, 04:25:42 pm »

Fox news exec to staff: Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’

By Kelsey Sutton

09/28/16 12:07 PM EDT

Fox News’s vice president of public-opinion research sent a memo to staff Wednesday reminding employees that unscientific online polls, which were cited in several segments to suggest that Donald Trump won Monday night’s presidential debate against Hillary Clinton, do not meet the network’s editorial standards.

"As most of the publications themselves clearly state, the sample obviously can’t be representative of the electorate because they only reflect the views of those Internet users who have chosen to participate," Dana Blanton, Fox News’s vice president of public-opinion research, wrote in the memo to the channel's politics team, which was obtained by Business Insider’s Oliver Darcy. "Another problem — we know some campaigns/groups of supporters encourage people to vote in online polls and flood the results," she wrote. "These quickie click items do not meet our editorial standards."

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Re: Fox news exec to staff: Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2016, 04:55:50 pm »
Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’. You don't say. Who woulda thunk? :pondering:
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Re: Fox news exec to staff: Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2016, 05:00:10 pm »
Agreed, they aren't but on the other hand, winning virtually every single one, about 19 of them, is hard to explain. A "concerted effort" doesn't hack it, others have the same opportunity to vote.

Also, the one poll Trump lost, the CNN poll, it is being said, that poll was weighed 41% Democratic.  He may have lost one of the other polls, I forget which one it was. If that is so, he lost about 2 of around 20.
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Re: Fox news exec to staff: Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2016, 05:03:35 pm »
Also, Trump raises $16 million or something after the debate, in that people are voting with their wallets.

Trump appeared to a crowd of 27,000, 20,000 yesterday, Hillary's crowd was estimated at 1400.
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Re: Fox news exec to staff: Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2016, 05:15:41 pm »
POTUS Ron Paul was not available for comment.
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Re: Fox news exec to staff: Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2016, 05:16:31 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on September 28, 2016, 05:03:35 pm
Also, Trump raises $16 million or something after the debate, in that people are voting with their wallets.

Trump appeared to a crowd of 27,000, 20,000 yesterday, Hillary's crowd was estimated at 1400.

You are simply entrenching your reputation as a sycophant.  You could gain some credibility by acknowledging that Hillary won Monday night.

She crushed him and even Fox News is having to admit it.  But one debate is not an election.
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Re: Fox news exec to staff: Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2016, 05:16:33 pm »
Suddenly FNC has 'standards'.
Who knew.
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Re: Fox news exec to staff: Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2016, 05:24:08 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on September 28, 2016, 05:00:10 pm
Agreed, they aren't but on the other hand, winning virtually every single one, about 19 of them, is hard to explain. A "concerted effort" doesn't hack it, others have the same opportunity to vote.

Also, the one poll Trump lost, the CNN poll, it is being said, that poll was weighed 41% Democratic.  He may have lost one of the other polls, I forget which one it was. If that is so, he lost about 2 of around 20.

Nope.

We now have four scientific polls on who won the debate:

Morning Consult: Hillary +23
YouGov: Hillary +27
CNN: Hillary +25
PPP: Hillary +11
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Re: Fox news exec to staff: Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2016, 05:46:37 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on September 28, 2016, 05:00:10 pm
Agreed, they aren't but on the other hand, winning virtually every single one, about 19 of them, is hard to explain.

...other than the websites that provided a whole list of the polls to hit, with instructions on how to bypass the check and vote multiple times.
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Re: Fox news exec to staff: Online polls ‘not true measures of public opinion’
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2016, 05:54:26 pm »
Quote from: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on September 28, 2016, 05:15:41 pm
POTUS Ron Paul was not available for comment.

Exactly my thoughts as well.
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« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2016, 06:48:41 pm »
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