Palin draws largest crowd yet for GOP(Politico) Sarah Palin tonight attracted the largest crowd yet to any Republican campaign event this cycle,
drawing tens of thousands of Floridians
out in a conservative-leaning retirement community
north of Orlando for a solo rally.
Everybody is talking about this poll from CNN declaring victory for Obama's debate performance last
night with an article titled "Round 1 in debates goes to Obama, poll says."
Buried way, way down at the bottom of the story -- hopefully, one surmises, past the point where anyone would read -- is the following:
The results may be favoring Obama simply because more Democrats than Republicans tuned in to the debate. Of the debate-watchers questioned in this
poll, 41 percent of the respondents identified themselves as Democrats, 27 percent as Republicans and 30 percent as independents.
I'm far from being a polling expert, but this is obviously a slanted poll. A 14-point split between Republican and Democrat respondents? And what
percentage of those "independents" were leaners for Obama?
That's bad enough, but the really egregious part is CNN's blatant reportage of opinion as fact, which allowed the creation of a news story
announcing Obama's victory.
So much for that poll. The truth is that Obama had many, manygaffes.