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The sampling comprises 33% Democrats, as opposed to only 20% Republicans. That thirteen-point spread is two points larger than their September polling, at 32%/21%. More tellingly, it’s significantly larger than their Election Day sample, which included 35% Democrats to 26% Republicans for a gap of nine points, about a third smaller than the gap in this poll. Of course, that’s when they were more concerned about accuracy over political points of view.

And…

Remember when I wrote that poll watchers need to remember the recent Gallup poll on party affiliation? Gallup polled 5,000 adults and found that the gap between Democrats and Republicans had closed to the smallest margin since 2005, six points, and had been reduced more than half since the beginning of the year. For the WaPo/ABC poll, though, their sample gap has increased almost 50% during that time.

This has become standard practice among the media lackeys of the Obama administration. I alluded to another egregious example just a few days ago in which Time/CBS used a similar mechanism to skew the results of another poll to conform to their Obama/Democrat cheerleading.

If Obama wants to “make sure the news is covered as fairly as possible,” I’ve got a much better suggestion where he can focus his efforts than Fox News.

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