Obama’s Friend Zogby Fixing the Polls?
The Bear on May 05 2008 at 7:00 am | Filed under: Election 08’
Every time we think we are done writing about Barack Obama and his questionable supporters and friends, someone else with questionable views emerges.
Introducing the Zogby family – James, John, and Joseph.
James (Jim) Zogby is founder of the Arab American Institute and also writes for Huffington Post. He recently penned an op-ed in the Florida Times Union entitled Israel Must Treat Americans Fairly, critical of Israel’s treatment of Arab Americans traveling through Israel. In response, the Times Union published Israel Must be Treated Fairly which shed some light on Zogby:
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Before founding the Arab American Institute, Zogby created the Palestine Human Rights Commission as the propaganda arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a terrorist group responsible for murdering thousands, including 11 Israeli athletes, at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The PLO was created in 1964 with the goal of “destroying the Jewish presence in Palestine.”
Like CAIR, Zogby’s Arab American Institute bills itself as an Arab American civil rights organization that spends a great deal of its time squelching criticism of Arab and Islamic terrorism, and inhibiting our government’s efforts to prevent another attack like Sept. 11, 2001.
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Zogby polling methods have been suspect for quite some time and even labeled ‘polling propaganda‘ as highlighted by this post 9-11 Zogby poll which concluded:
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“…half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some of our leaders “knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act,” according to the poll conducted by Zogby International…”
In 2004, Pollipundit conducted a review of polling procedures and concluded this about Zogby:
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In other words, Zogby uses his own polls to drive some of his demographic parameters, a practice not approved, much less recommended, by either the NCPP or the AAPOR.
All in all, Zogby’s habit of confusing his personal opinion with data-driven conclusions, his admitted practice of manipulating the respondent pool and his demographic weights, by standards not accepted anywhere else, along with mixing Internet polls with telephone interview results, forces me to reject his polls as unacceptable; they simply cannot be verified, and I strongly warn the reader that there is no established benchmark for the Zogby reports, even using previous Zogby polls, because he has changed his practices from his own history.
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