 Share
|
« Previous Daily-dish | Next Daily-dish » |
Email
Print
|
Checking Fred Hiatt
ByThat poll that Fred Hiatt ran this morning? Showing 2-1 Ahmadinejad support. It was taken three weeks before the vote, before the campaign took off, and it had one huge asterisk in it:
The poll that appears in today's op-ed shows a 2 to 1 lead in the
thinnest sense: 34 percent of those polled said they'd vote for
Ahmadinejad, 14 percent for Mousavi. That leaves 52 percent unaccounted
for. In all, 27 percent expressed no opinion in the election, and
another 15 percent refused to answer the question at all. Six percent
said they'd vote for none of the listed candidates; the rest for minor
candidates.
Troublingly, this enormously pertinent fact was left out of the op-ed. Who edited it? Why were its results distorted to buttress Ahmadinejad? What is Fred Hiatt up to?
