Ethics investigation finds Palin abused power. Now that the Legislative committee released their investigation results, John McCain’s poor judgment is out in the open. How could he a possible picked a bimbo like Palin to be his running mate?

truecitizen, what are you on? There's a big difference between being biased and reporting the truth. Maybe it's just not always the way you prefer to see it. And many reporters of major media conglomerates are subject to discipline and even firings if they do not report stories the way that is to the conservative owners liking, such as Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation and David Smith who is Chairman and CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group. So it does matter who owns the news media.

A memo to Johnny McSame. "After the last eight years, who shouldn't be trusting who?"

Please don't forget that John McCain voted with George Bush on 90% of the issues. Like the way things have gone for the past eight years? Vote John McCain. Also check out his voting record.

www.votesmart.org.

Doesn't support our veterans and doesn't support renewable energy.

Many of you are debating Obama vs. McCain (and like the media, ignoring all the other candidates). This article is about people not trusting polls. I agree with them - I don't trust polls either. Why? Because polls are often designed to create the desired outcome. For example, a recent presidential poll surveyed a higher percentage of Democrats than are found in the general population. Guess who "won" that poll - Obama! What a surprise! In addition to election polls, I also no longer believe government data, such as the unemployment rate, inflation rate, etc. I have no doubt that these are routinely manipulated for political expediency. Pay close attention to what's happening in your own life, and take information from the "powers that be" with a HUGE grain of salt.

They don't believe in the polls, but I bet they believe that a giant man in the sky impregnated a woman 2000 years ago.

Talk shows.
The liberal side has only one topic, one side, and everyone else is wrong. They talk only of failed policy and hate Bush. Their programming is sarcastic and inuendo. They donot want to hear anything that conflicts with their preconcieved beliefs or actually refute anything they'v said (EXAMPLE: The truth).
The conservative side is relaxed, listens to both sides and lets the listner make up his/her own mind. Believes both sides have a right to speak out and will only question when either side is not telling the truth. Truth is the important word here.
Regardless, if you don't listen to both sides with an open mind, then how does one make an informed decision?
Your vote is the one that will help determine the road this country will take----lets be sure it is the right road. Look,Listen, Decide and vote on who you honestly believe will live up to what he says.

If John McCain had good judgment, why would he pick a running mate under investigation? I think that shows very poor judgment. There was any number of other people he could have chosen who were as if not more qualified that were not under investigation. I agree, the only poll that counts is the one on November 4th.

igotclout..You're forgetting about coverage. Yes Foxnews is the most viewed, But the other major prgrams are more seen in total (collectively). I believe more people are subjected to the other views. The differences are in the 'mean' vs. the 'median'...I think I said that right. More outlets vs. what's actually viewed or listened to. Without FOX, there would be an almost completely one sided view. Do you agree at all?

Dear redhawk.....what side of the solar system did you wake up on? The media regardless of apparent ownership or not is by far liberally bias.

To you who debate McCain's service....Obama never served! Further more....McCain is not Bush and neither of the current candidates have much to do with the economy anyway (yet)! People are just behaving like bandwagon lemmings!. I try to think for myself. Obama will try to solve everything with blanket financial approaches....covered by your taxes. This is the way of democrats, and is not even contested by them. I feel the hard working, bill paying, real true Americans, are going to pay for all of the slugs out there! Doesn't matter anyway. Obama's foreign policy will be filled with appeasement. That worked soooo well for Clinton. North Korea listened so well didn't they? Clinton gave them Billions in food, aid, and other incentives, to not pursue their nukes. They did it, and appeasement failed....now what say Obama on Iran?
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Obama is also very one sided. McCain will be much more approachable by other members of government. Simply put Obama is farther from center than McCain. I don't want a radical in office. Obama's history will show it's ugly self long after its too late!
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Obama sounds good in the wake of events which are not tied to McCain anyway. If it sounds good it usually is not. Haven't you learned anything from the history of advertisements? Trust John McCain and you will be glad you did so.

Russ68: I have been doing phone polling for close to two months now. I was the one who phoned your home tonight AND I knew you were lying to me. I put your opinion under "unqualified" which means it doesn't get counted.

Russ, it's sad that you felt you had to lie to pollsters. That is how political professionals actually try and figure out how the electorate is going to go. I'm sorry that you are so cynical. I hope that God forgives you for lying to the amazing people that work so hard.

Whiny, cry-baby conservatives love to prattle on and on about the "liberal media." To be fair, except for FOX News (Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, John Gibson, Neil Cavuto, Steve Doocy, E.D. Hill, Brian Kilmeade, Brit Hume), Clear Channel, Laura Ingraham, Dr. Laura, Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Ann Coulter, Newsmax, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, Michael Savage, The New York Post, Sinclair Broadcast Group (WLOS13, Fox 45, WTTO21, WB49, KGAN, WICD, WICS, WCHS, WVAH, WTAT, WSTR, WSYX, WTTE, WKEF, WRGT, KDSM, WSMH, WXLV, WURN, KVWB, KFBT, WDKY, WMSN, WVTV, WEAR, WZTV, KOTH, WYZZ, WPGH, WGME, WLFL, WRLH, WUHF, KABB, WGGB, WSYT, WTTA), David Horowitz, Rupert Murdoch, PAX, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, they're right.

Fact 1: The largest news channel in the U.S. in terms of viewership in Fox News.

Fact 2: In terms of Talk Radio... there are over 1,000 conservative radio programs, while there are less than 100 progressive radio programs.

now tell me again about the liberal media.

I just got polled tonight. Just for fun, I told them I was voting Obama... which of course is most definitely NOT true. I don't believe the polls for one second. Besides, the only one that matters is the one taken on Nov 4 anyway.

the polls had Kerry winning in Ohio last election- look what happened!!. Bradley in California was at the 65% mark.- he lost. Dont despair Republicans -Karl Rove is out in the country 24/7 getting his Permanent Repubublican Majority program going full steam.-----he couldnt do that if he was still in the White House. also, the usual negative attacks against any Democrat is getting "ramped" up.

Zoom: If you read Weds paper it is an example . Front page headline against MCCain, back page Obama. 2 letters to editor pro dem, 1 rep. total articles if you read all of them thru about 6 pro dem, (1 rep about campaign vist to LaCrossse not even pro rep) .Facts: totaly wrong in one news service article about fan ,fred they do not originate mortgages. All AP is slanted as well as other news services. FACTS not opinion . We can count every day for the rest of your life and it will still be so. READ and understand

I have never been polled or any one in my family or any of my friends...Sometimes they are right sometimes they are way off...jmo

A statement from newsweek: "All of these surveys adhered to standard polling practice--phone calls, representative sampling--and none were conducted online."
Representative of who? (or is it whom?)
Not cell phone users, internet users? Just people who are at home when the poll is taken by land phone or door-to-door.
As I wrote earlier, "Beware the results of polls". That warning is for both Parties.
Remember, about a month from now, one party is going to win...and the other will lose.
Vote knowledgably and carefully.

I get the biggest kick out of anyone who uses the phrase, "liberal media". Don't you realize that 98 percent of the media outlets in this country (newspapers, magazines, television and radio) are owned by conservative republicans?

In order to remain a "tried and true" republican in the hard times, one would need to refuse to believe a whole lot of things, polls, the fact your party got us into an unnecessary war, then broke the back of the economy with crooked dealings etc etc on and on.

If/When Sen.Obama wins the requisite electoral votes to be the next President of the United States of America...Sen John McCain will not be the big loser, no, the big loser will be the citizens of the USA for showing so little insight to elect the feel good/fix it for us/save us candidate.

I see the numbers reflecting the insight and political savvy of roughly 40some percent of the nations population...50some percent are easily led fools who would vote for anyone promising to save them and let them be taken care of at Govt. expense.

Read the history books you rabid Obama supporters...pay close attention to the elections of 1932 in Germany...think it cant happen here or again? The well meaning but politically retarded will elect Obama president.

mark707: I understand what you're saying regarding telephone surveys, but who do you think is most likely to have a cell phone? Younger people. Obama has sealed up the vast majority of the younger vote. Also, older people vote a lot more than younger people. Insanely more.
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What I'd watch for as far as discrepencies in the polls is something called the "Bradley Effect". Named for Tom Bradley, a black candidate for Governor in the 1982 election in California. Bradley was projected to win the race, and not by a small margin. It turns out that people being polled, on some level, are looking for the social acceptance of the person doing the polling. Rather than risk that the person polling them thinking that they were possibly a racist, the people being polled said that they were voting for Bradley, even though they had no intention of doing so. Bradley lost the election. Many people being polled may just answer that they are voting for Obama. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it does happen.

Well said Pat!!!

"I want to reward McCain for his service to his country by letting him reward us!".. REWARD him for what?? For serving in the service? Not everyone who serves in the service is fit to lead and either is mccain. Should we reward him for the mess this country is in? Should we reward him for voting with bush 90% of the time and voting not to regulate banking or the cronies on wall street?? He needs to retire. Also on his comment the other night during the debate, calling Obama 'that one ' I don't think it was racist as some are saying. I simply think he could not remember who it was he was debating. His age sneaking up on him. He is rude, angry and has a agenda. He is disprespectful to fellow senators not just Obama and his temper shows more and more.

McCain has no personal agenda to be gained. I believe he is sincere and will follow-through on his promises. He is at an age where he is ready to give back to us. I have listened to both candidates. Obama is spuing empty statistics and is less likely to make the practical applications later on. I am not a republican (though conservative), and I have been open minded. McCain is by far the choice for this nation. I believe his actions will speak louder than any words. I want to reward McCain for his service to his country by letting him reward us!

I can't believe how foolish some of you are to believe anything mccain is trippin about Obama. He is losing. His wife dared to say that Obama is running a dirty campaign. Well the dirt started on mccain. He is the king of dirty. His lies about Obama being a terrorist, yet mccain himself has been linked to ayers. palin for being 'new' shows she knows how it works and is pretty dirty for a ' newcomer' .
Those that are losing tend to complain the most.

Obama is the Antichrist - I still don't understand why people can be so fooled by him. I'm not the only one who thinks he is either. Check the internet and you tube, etc. There are a lot of other people who think so too. And you can criticize me all you want for being a believer in conspiracies, prophesies, etc but my intuition is right....I felt it before I ever saw anyone else was thinking it too....

Many polls are taken by telephone...land line telephones...and not cell phones. Many people, especially younger voters, do not have a land line. This distorts the results in favor of voters (often older) with traditional phone service.
A second method of polling voters is door-to-door canvassing. This is often done during the working day or early evening and distorts the results in favor of retired or stay-at-home voters.
Beware the results of polls.

It's tough being a conservative these days. I can't understand why everyone is against us. Just because the "trickle down" economy didn't exactly work out. I mean we work so hard to help this country by trying to eliminate individual freedoms while attempting to arm every American with automatic weapons. It was so much easier before that darn liberal media got involved. Now the polls are fixed and you can't believe anything on TV anymore unless you're watching FOX news. That Bill O'Reilly is such an honest man, alway trying to bring people together. But like he says, those liberal spies are everywhere. In fact, just the other day I had to where a disguise over my tin foil hat. Now those darn Democrats are going to come in and really mess things up after Bush did so well to improve our lives over the last 8 years.

newsread5, there was actually an editorial addressing newspaper bias by the Gazette in the Sunday paper. Scott Angus gets calls complaining about bias from both sides, so the paper must be doing something right. Bliss Communications, the owners of the Gazette, also have a conservative owner and Board. The charges of bias toward the Gazette are unfounded.

Even if he loses Wisconsin, he's up so much in the electoral count (320 for Obama, 163 for McCain, and 55 undecided or too close to call according to pollster.com), that I doubt it will make a difference. Obama would really have to screw up now (I mean like Howard Dean style) to lose.

UWSam: you must be reading another paper or you are a total wacko. The JV Gaz runs 10 articles supporting lliberals for every 1 supporting conservative views. Just count the letters to the editor for a week and also scorekeep regular articles. Then you will have the facts.

Yes this survey is most likely to be off. There's always a margin of error based on the size of the sample group. That's why there isn't just one but several polls in Wisconsin that show Obama up.

My question is why does the Janesville Gazette, year after year, report items that feed into the conservative paranoia about media, scientific polling, and progressives? The Gazette never fails to turn something good about Democrats into an even better story that stokes the Republican base.

WAH WAH WAH I dont care just go VOTE

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I think polls are a very good indicator of public opinion. Republicans would doubt nothing if there man was ahead.

Polls are just an idea of the current view of the people at that certain time. Of course they can be changed. While I believe that Obama is leading right now, I don't believe that it is at 10 points. I believe that it is closer to 5-6 points.
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Another reason to not believe the polls is that a lot of the polls had Bush up 3-8 points in Wisconsin going into the last weekend and he lost Wisconsin.