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That Fox Poll

By The Daily Dish
Oct 30 2008, 4:54 AM ET

I reported on its highly dubious methodology and misleading news story that in no way lets readers know what the facts really are. More from Blumenthal via Ambinder:

"If they have been weighting by party, and they suddenly changed their weighting, I'd say it's a pretty questionable practice.  The last four Fox surveys all varied slightly in terms of party ID, so I'm not sure that's what they've done.  That said, if the other surveys this week show no similar "shift" in party, then it's probably reasonable to discount this result."

The weighting was dramatically different from the last poll - and yet their news story compared the two as if they were identical samples. Nate: your take?



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