HuffPost: Project Putting Polling Under The Microscope
This is from Arianna Huffington, at the Huffington Post.
The impact of polls and polling on our political process continues to be one of the unexplored stories of the 2008 race.
Take the remarkable gap — chasm, really — between the widening lead national polls continue to anoint Hillary Clinton with and the current dead heat in Iowa and New Hampshire.
It’s enough to leave one wondering: are polls measuring the 2008 election or are they driving it?
But it’s a question traditional media outlets steadfastly refuse to investigate – perhaps they’ve grown too accustomed to the ease of offering up the latest “who’s leading the horserace?” story. Indeed, quoting polling data as news has become synonymous with reporting at many news organizations.
So HuffPost’s OffTheBus team has decided to turn the tables by launching a wide-ranging effort to scrutinize an industry devoted to scrutinizing us.
