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Pollster adds sex questions for Ron Paul supporters.

by Charles Coughlin

There are many ways a poll can be skewed to hurt a candidate. Some are the result of sloppiness and laziness on the part of the pollster. For example many pollsters assume that the only people voting in a primary will be the people who voted in the last primary. Only about 7 percent of Republicans vote in the primaries under normal conditions. The 2008 election will almost certainly be massively different due to the tremendous enthusiasm of the Ron Paul supporters, who have already proven that they will show up in dozens of GOP straw polls. In the 2004 presidential primary, George Bush was running for re-election essentially unopposed. That means that Republicans opposed to Bush’s policies were even less likely to have voted than usual. This segment of Republicans would be about as unfavorable a crowd for Ron Paul as possible. A poll based on previous voters would also miss any cross-over vote from Independents, Libertarians and Democrats, who might want to register Republican so they can vote for the only viable anti-war candidate.

While it’s understandable that early polls might accidentally assume the 2008 primary will be just like all the others, it is completely inexcusable that pollsters would keep making the same mistakes over and over for months, ignore the many Republican straw polls where Ron Paul places first and the hundreds of online polls, which invariably show Ron Paul placing first –often by a landslide. Such continued negligence suggests that these pollsters WANT Ron Paul to stay in the low single digits.

New information has arisen that at least one pollster was adding questions about sex whenever anyone said they supported Ron Paul. Obviously, the sex question would offend most people and get them to hang up, which would invalidate their support for Ron Paul since they didn’t answer all the questions in the poll.

A recent news article reveals “(A) Reader says choosing Texas Congressman led to bizarre questions about sexual positions… admitted practices of pollsters artificially deflate Paul’s real support. Presidential candidate Ron Paul has broke fundraising records, consistently trounces the opposition in phone-in and Internet polls and the Texas Congressman always performs well at straw polls, yet is the reason for his meager support in national opinion polls partly due to a deliberate effort to skew the results? A reader tells us that he recently signed up with Zogby to take part in a national opinion poll about the 2008 presidential election. Upon confirming Ron Paul as his pick, the poll branched out into a myriad of bizarre and intrusive questions that would put most off completing the process, thereby making the poll null and void, and unfairly deflating national support numbers for the Congressman.”

Internet radio host Alex Jones recently mentioned this outrageous effort by a pollster to portray Ron Paul as insignificant in the polls through outright sabotage. Jones was so outraged he suggested he might pay for a fair poll by an official polling firm and that he would determine which questions would be asked.

A few years ago, a pro-impeachment organization, AfterDowningStreet.org paid Zogby to do a simple straightforward poll that asked if George Bush lied us into the Iraq War, should he be impeached? A majority of Americans responded “Yes.” This Zogby poll created a tremendous amount of buzz in the mainstream press and exposed Bush as the criminal in chief as opposed to the commander in chief.

Ron Paul is pulling in more donations than John McCain, who is put at about 17 percent in the polls. Most political pundits KNOW that the amount of donations should translate into popular support. McCain has a lot more rich friends from his long political career, so it seems likely that Ron Paul has a lot more supporters contributing smaller amounts than McCain’s supporters.

If a poll came out that showed Ron Paul at 20 or 25 percent, it would be a huge revelation and expose the mainstream pollsters as the liars, they are. It would also give a tremendous boost to the Ron Paul campaign and finally remove the dark cloud hanging over the Paul campaign that appears whenever the “two to five percent” polling number is mentioned. This “two percent” slander is so damaging that Ron Paul himself should consider spending money on an unbiased poll by an independent, recognized pollster. If a patriot like Alex Jones steps up and does a poll, then great for him. It shouldn’t cost more than a few thousand to commission a poll, and the more unbiased polls, the better.