Polls, what are they good for?

Absolutely nothing! At least when they are the ones bought & paid for by the MSM. This time the New York Times does their best to affect the November elections by misleading the public with another bogus poll.

The poll found that 51 percent of those surveyed saw no link between the war in Iraq and the broader antiterror effort, a jump of 10 percentage points since June. That increase comes despite the regular insistence of Mr. Bush and Congressional Republicans that the two are intertwined and should be seen as complementary elements of a strategy to prevent domestic terrorism.

Should the trend hold, the rising skepticism could present a political obstacle for Mr. Bush and his allies on Capitol Hill, who are making their record on terrorism a central element of the midterm election campaign. The Republicans hope that by expressing a desire for forceful action against terrorists, they can offset unease with the Iraq war and blunt the political appeal of Democratic calls to establish a timeline to withdraw American troops.

Of course the NYT already knows that the 9/11 Commission, the Senate Intelligence Committee & the Iraq Survey Group, ET AL, have irrefutably proven time & time again that Saddam's Iraq harbored, financed, trained & conspired with terrorists, including al qaeda.

Of course the NYT, like the rest of the MSM got a sudden case of amnesia right around the first Tuesday in November, 2000. You see prior to the election of George Bush, the MSM had no problems educating the public about Saddam & his terrorist ties. And now that they have spent the last six years misinforming the public about those ties, they now have a bogus poll that want to mislead you with in the hopes it will affect voting in the upcoming election.

Of course it's easy to get a 10 point jump from the June poll. Just rig it more than you did the last time. Do a better job leading the respondents to the answer you want with leading questions. Make sure the poll is of adults and not likely voters. In typical fashion over sample libs & under sample conservatives. Just to male sure you get the desired results, over sample every single demographic favoring libs & under sample those favoring conservatives. And in the interim, don't forget to mislead the public as often as possible by telling then there were no terrorist connections in Saddam's Iraq until after the Eeeeevil Bush Admin invaded.


Then write your triumphant article knowing you have done your best to lead the voting public by the nose.