New York Times Poll Stacked With Obamaphiles

It's an old story by now: the New York Times and CBS manipulating polling data in search of a result that matches their "foregone" conclusions. But the latest round deserves to be mentioned, lest we forget that the "Paper of Record" is a broken one.

(CNSNews.com) - A New York Times/CBS News poll released Saturday that showed broad bipartisan support for President Obama’s health care reform, over-sampled Obama voters compared to McCain voters, critics say.

The poll, administered June 12-16, found that 72 percent of respondents favored the creation of a government health-insurance plan that would compete with private insurers.

Other polls have shown no similar results. In fact, some polls show less public support for government health care today than existed in 1993, the last time a White House and Congress attempted the feat.

Out of 895 respondents, 24 percent were Republicans, 38 percent Democrats, and 38 percent were independents, according to a June 20 release from CBS News. While the release says the sampling was conducted at random, those numbers are significantly below the 32.6 percent who identify themselves as Republican according to a May survey from the nonpartisan Rasmussen Reports.

Similarly, the Times/CBS poll said 48 percent of respondents had voted for Obama, versus 25 percent for McCain, a nearly two-to-one advantage for Obama supporters.

In other words, whatever methodology the poll was using, it was predetermined to find a preponderance of those who would give them the answer they sought.