ABC TRIES TO HIDE POLL RESULTS
Special Report by the
Creative Youth News Team
August 21, 2007
Dennis Kucinich won the ABC post-debate (Iowa debate) poll twice. It seems that ABC, which has been working overtime to hide popular Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, was very unhappy when Kucinich won the ABC post debate poll, hid the poll and started from scratch. The replacement poll doesn't even ask the question correctly and the oddness of the question form (future tense as opposed to past tense) didn't change the outcome. To their dismay, Kucinich won it again. ABC followed up by pretending Kucinich was not even at the debate by cropping a debate photograph to eliminate his image. ABC shows discussing the debate avoided any mention of Kucinich or of the polls showing he had a commanding lead. ABC has declared a news blackout on America's most popular Presidential candidate, and Americans are standing up and crying foul. Some groups are calling for a boycott of Disney (ABC's parent company) and ABC.
Here are the two polls ABC wants kept secret:
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One would think that, with Kucinich
landsliding to victory in the ABC polls, ABC would be eager to mention
his name. Instead it hides his existence in broadcasts and
coverage. Additionally, on
their article about the debate, they cropped the picture to cut him out
as if he wasn't there. Why would a major network have to work so
hard to pretend a candidate doesn't exist? Dennis Kucinich's
popularity is hard to contain. In the AFL-CIO debate, Keith
Olberman kept trying to keep down the applause for Kucinich but wasn't
able to contain the cheering of the enthusiastic crowd. Kucinich
truly is the man of the people.
With what we have seen above, one wonders about the accuracy of other ABC polls. Can a station that hides the result of polls it doesn't like be trusted to present the names of all candidates to people it polls out of the view of the public? Pollsters from major polling organizations have been caught leaving Kucinich's names off their polls. They figure that if he isn't a choice, they can just give him a percentage (1) from the "other" category. Kucinich isn't at one percent, though they like to say he is. Accurate polls have him as high as 79%. In polls where the public picks the candidates based on the issues, Kucinich has always had an easy victory. Results of polls like these are something that frightens organizations like ABC and put station executives into a rush to mislead the public as to where the public stands.
In the Iowa debate, Dennis Kucinich was not given an opportunity to answer a question from ABC's moderator George Stephanopoulos until 28 minutes into the program. Even so, the audience and viewers solidly agree Kucinich won the debate. ABC has refused to make any pubic release of the results of the polls showing that Kucinich had a commanding victory in both polls. Some voters groups are now calling for a boycott of ABC and Disney as a result of the networks actions that that are being seen as yellow journalism. There is a widespread belief that ABC owes an apology, not just to the Kucinich campaign, but to the American people.
It's time the truth were acknowledged. The Democrats have a frontrunner and it's not one of the three whose name is being thrown around by ABC or other networks who would mislead the public about the candidates . The frontrunner is Dennis Kucinich. In elections, people, not networks, have the vote. ABC may have to figure out a new way to hide Kucinich's victories when 2008 rolls around.
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With what we have seen above, one wonders about the accuracy of other ABC polls. Can a station that hides the result of polls it doesn't like be trusted to present the names of all candidates to people it polls out of the view of the public? Pollsters from major polling organizations have been caught leaving Kucinich's names off their polls. They figure that if he isn't a choice, they can just give him a percentage (1) from the "other" category. Kucinich isn't at one percent, though they like to say he is. Accurate polls have him as high as 79%. In polls where the public picks the candidates based on the issues, Kucinich has always had an easy victory. Results of polls like these are something that frightens organizations like ABC and put station executives into a rush to mislead the public as to where the public stands.
In the Iowa debate, Dennis Kucinich was not given an opportunity to answer a question from ABC's moderator George Stephanopoulos until 28 minutes into the program. Even so, the audience and viewers solidly agree Kucinich won the debate. ABC has refused to make any pubic release of the results of the polls showing that Kucinich had a commanding victory in both polls. Some voters groups are now calling for a boycott of ABC and Disney as a result of the networks actions that that are being seen as yellow journalism. There is a widespread belief that ABC owes an apology, not just to the Kucinich campaign, but to the American people.
It's time the truth were acknowledged. The Democrats have a frontrunner and it's not one of the three whose name is being thrown around by ABC or other networks who would mislead the public about the candidates . The frontrunner is Dennis Kucinich. In elections, people, not networks, have the vote. ABC may have to figure out a new way to hide Kucinich's victories when 2008 rolls around.
Copyright ©2007 by the Creative Youth News Team.
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