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Congress, Surveillance Poll Oversampled Dems
GOP critics are hailing an Associated Press-Ipsos poll purporting to show that the public opposes both continued GOP control of Congress and the Bush administration's terrorist wiretapping program. But it turns out that the AP-Ipsos sample used to answer both questions included far more Democrats than Republicans. On Friday, a widely circulated AP report announced that a large plurality of Americans now favor a Democrat takeover of Congress [49 to 36 percent]. A follow-up AP story claimed that by a margin of 56 to 42 percent, Americans think it was wrong for President Bush to wiretap U.S.-based terrorists without a court warrant.
Story Continues Below Readers howled when both AP reports turned up on NewsMax, pointing out links that show the poll was heavily stacked with Democrats. A quick check of the Ipsos web site turned up the telltale evidence in the poll's second question. Asked if they lean either "strongly" or "moderately" to either the Democrat or Republican Party, 52 percent of Ipsos respondents identified themselves as Democrats. Just 40 percent called themselves Republican. The Ipsos survey numbers, including those revealing that the sample was heavily biased against Republicans, can be viewed at: http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/client/act_dsp_pdf.cfm?name=mr060106-3topline.pdf&id=2928
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