Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Reading an article this morning that states in the headlines, "Many Obama voters ignored other Texas primary races".

Then a few paragraphs later there is this;
The analysis has limitations: It's impossible to tell which voters skipped the down-ballot contest, though the counties in question leaned heavily to one candidate or the other. And it cannot take into account the decisions of individual voters, driven by many different factors.
So, basically, they gathered this election poll data, made a statement after analyzing the data, then throw in the disclaimer, effectively saying there really is no story here. Then the authors completely disregard the contrary remarks, and print remarks by 'experts' about the data. One such expert they called a 'strategist', which is probably just a label they pasted to the person to lend credibility to the blatantly obvious bias, because they also happened to be a volunteer for Obama. This person remarked, "To get these people to return to the polls in November, the odds are much better if Barack Obama is the nominee,"...

This piece belongs in the gossip section, there is no real journalism here.....

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