OT-Warning about Political Surveys

[Kansas Ed]

I just fielded a call about a political survey. I agreed to answer.

I just wanted to remind everyone to listen to the questions closely. Many of the questions in these surveys are skewed. One of the questions they asked was to rank several issues in order of importance. The issues were primarily of liberal interest. The results of that question would have been published as: "XX% of Kansans feel that XXXXXX is the most important issue facing them. I refused to answer this one question, to which they promptly told me that I must answer to continue the survey. I responded that the question was skewed for a particular result and I wouldn't answer, to which they responded that they couldn't continue and hung up.

Just be on your toes...

Ed

[J Miller]

You are so right. Every political survey I've ever taken, regardless of who did it was skewed. Each entity wants their specific agenda to look like it's the most important.

Joe