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It’s clear that Fox & Friends has a tricky relationship with data. But on the show Thursday morning, the hosts took that relationship to a whole new level.
After a raft of new polls showed Obama opening up leads in swing states, the Friends flew in to full-blown conspiracy mode about what’s really behind the data.
Parroting the latest Republican meme
that national polls oversample Democrats, host Steve Doocy threw in to
the mix the possibility that pollsters are using voter turnout from 2008
to guide who they should be asking. And why would the “left-based
mainstream media” do this? Doocy had an answer.
“Well, two reasons,” he said. “One, perhaps, to keep Mitt Romney’s
donors from coughing up more cash. And two, to keep people from doing
early voting.”
Co-host Gretchen Carlson had another theory: “I do think there’s a
subliminal message in these daily polling things, which isn’t always
great for the voter.”
One problem with the theories: FOX’s own polling also shows Obama surging in swing states. A survey
released by the network just last week showed the president leading
Romney by no fewer than five points in Ohio, Virginia and Florida......
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