I guess we are talking about Mississppi. I'll concede that's not much to go on.

I would say the posting was more an attempt at dishonesty, but he just sort of stated that he didn't seem to notice that. The poll itself may very well be a bit dishonest as well, why such a narrow poll (by a Democratic group) is made and published seems to be an attempt at alarmism regardless of them pointing out the specifics (limited specifics at that, I had to dig a bit to find it was only 400 people)

GMTom wrote:...I had to dig a bit to find it was only 400 people)

You had to click the link and read the first part that popped up.

It was not stated in the article itself and required a click or two, not hidden by any means but not exactly forthcoming in their attempt to discredit Republicans. To suggest this is an evenhanded and fair story is still a stretch.

The poll is accurate within 5.9 percentage points, 95% of the time. Thats the basic stats math.

Whether or not the polling firm has any political leanings shouldn't matter. What matters is the questionnare and methodology of questioning. It was a telephone survey, which is standard for most of the polling today. Further it ws a live telephone intereview which is far better than the robo calling that a few organizations use.

However it says "interviewed 400 usual republican primary voters." It doesn't show a question that determines whether they voted or not and the wording indicates they had access to a database that predetermined this. But doesn't say what, how etc. . If that database was accurate then its a great poll of Missiissppi primary voters. But we don't know that.
. On the other hand what percentage of people who think interracial marriage is acceptable would indicate a tolerant group pf people?
Which is Neal's point.

Not to pile on, but my first thought was, "Is this the Huffpo?" So, I looked--aolnews, which not so long ago merged with . . . huffpo. Small sample, historically racially problematic area, biased journalism--can't really take this too seriously.

Of course, Ricky does. Then again, Ricky believes anything that paints conservatives as racist, homophobic, environment-hating warmongers who would like to starve children and push grandma off a cliff.

And if I were to take a poll of some liberal issue (Gay marriage?) and poll only 400 from San Francisco, would I then be right to let others believe this is how all Democrats think, all California Democrats? Biased polling plain and simple