Thursday, June 09, 2005

Media Bias and Polls

It is my completely unresearched impression that the GOP generally polls better during election season than other times. I wonder whether this is because media bias has a much greater effect away from elections, when the politicians have much less reason to invest effort to counteract the establishment media and voters have much less willingness to seek out alternative news sources. This would suggest that when using current polls to predict election results, one should give the GOP a little bump. It also suggests that media bias really doesn't help the Democrats much.

1 Comments:

Blogger Tobie said...

It may not be a Republican/Democrat thing, but an incumbent thing. During the year, the incumbents are busy doing things and all the opposition gets to sit around yelling at them over any failures or mistakes. Closer to the election, the incumbents get to point out all of their acheivements and so on because they aren't as busy actually getting things done.

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