Reply #18: Wrong again [View All]

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A New York Times/CBS News poll, conducted with polling firm Angus-Reid (983 US citizens randomly contacted):

Question:

"When it comes to what they knew prior to September 11th, 2001, about possible terrorist attacks against the United States, do you think members of the Bush Administration are telling the truth, are mostly telling the truth but hiding something, or are they mostly lying?"

Results:

16% said telling the truth,
53% said they are hiding something,
28% said they are mostly lying,
3% not sure...

...so over 80% total said they were hiding something or mostly lying..results that are pretty similar to the CNN internet polls.

This isn't too surprising given the potential for huge sample sizes with internet polls. As any polling firm will tell you, the larger the sample size the more accurate the result. Much larger than you can possibly get with the time and expense involved with traditional telephone polling, for example. And in many cases just as random.