Manystorm over at Daily Paul has put up an Open Letter to Allen Wastler, Managing Editor, CNBC.com, which responds to Wastler’s An Open Letter to the Ron Paul Faithful telling why he took the poll down that had Ron Paul winning the post debate poll. Manystorm says everything much better then I could have. Wastler talks about how Paul pulls low numbers in the “legit” polls (his quote marks), Manystorm points out, properly, that Paul is often not even a choice. I was reading something from Kucinich a supporter how they said Kucinich after the poller gave them the top few choices, when he said Kucinich they said that wasn’t an option and he had to pick one of the top choices, we can be sure the same is happening in the case of Dr. Paul. Manystorm points out Lew Rockwell’s article Ron Paul and Opinion Polling, which goes over many good points about polls. I would also point to Penn & Teller’s excellent Bullshit episode on Numbers from their 4th season. Polls are not about accuracy, they are about reflecting a narrow set of choices, to manipulate those who don’t understand how polls work. Of course somebody like Wastler undoubtedly knows that the “legit” polls are lies already, and his open letter to the Paul faithful is probably to further confuse those who don’t know how the “legit” polls work, and not actually to the Paul faithful.
I wonder what the mainstream media will do when Ron Paul gets far better then 3% at the primaries. How are they going to explain it to the brainwashed hordes?