OT: Foxnews polls?

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Submitted by svelte on October 9, 2008 - 12:28pm

Does anybody know what has happened to the fox news polls in the last couple weeks?

For the last 2 months, I have been watching www.gallup.com, www.realclearpolitics.com, and foxnews.com to see what their poll results say.

RealclearPolitics is especially good because it lists most of the major poll results.

But, about 2 weeks ago, Realclear stopped listing fox polls. So I've wandered over to the Fox site a few times and they are not there, either. At least not on the Politics page like they used to be. If I dig down a few pages, I can find the poll results during the primaries (it shows McCain against Huckabee and Obama against Clinton, for example), but no recent polls.

Anybody know where they went? Anybody suspicious that they stopped posting them on purpose?

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This is business as usual for
Submitted by Portlock on October 9, 2008 - 12:53pm.

This is business as usual for FOX Noise. The polls currently don't favor the current administration or the repub candidate. So if the News hurts the right or far right wing, it is not fit to print, just gets edited away...

I just love this poem written by John Cleese about Hannity:

Ode to Sean Hannity
by John Cleese

Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity

It wouldn't surprise me that
Submitted by nostradamus on October 9, 2008 - 1:01pm.

It wouldn't surprise me that they don't want to post poll results when there is talk of a democratic landslide victory and red states are turning blue while voters are registering democratic in record numbers.

I'm interested in witnessing
Submitted by Portlock on October 9, 2008 - 3:50pm.

I'm interested in witnessing the long, dour looks on the faces of Fox's republican foot soldiers come election night!

Their sadness will just validate the subjectivity of their info-tainment-based, right wing, biased reporting.

nostradamus wrote:It wouldn't
Submitted by svelte on October 10, 2008 - 3:43am.

nostradamus wrote:
It wouldn't surprise me that they don't want to post poll results when there is talk of a democratic landslide victory and red states are turning blue while voters are registering democratic in record numbers.

It's starting to look that way, but we still have just over three weeks left. Only four short weeks ago, things looked much different.

The interesting thing about looking at the RealClearPolitics site's electoral maps for past elections (hit "Polls" then "Electoral Maps") is that there were some real landslides in the Red direction (look at 1972!)...this is the first one in my adult life that has a chance of being a Blue one.

Very interesting times.

Not surprisingly, after the
Submitted by kicksavedave on October 10, 2008 - 8:16am.

Not surprisingly, after the least debate which most every independent poll had Obama winning by an average of about 15%, I switched over to FNC to see what they had to say about it. The only poll the showed was a viewer text message poll and it had McCain winning 85% to about 7% for Obama. It was laughable.

I guess when the news isn't good, you simply don't report it?