Poll Pushing by the Times (shocked!)

Poll BIAS!!




Not mentioned in the article, but the poll overweighted Democrat respondents.

If you go and find the numbers of poll (link), which are not listed in the article.  the poll asked 960 people, of which 247 are Republicans, 321 Democrats, and 392 Indepedents.

Ignoring independents, there are 30% more Democrats asked than Republicans. With that type of polling, of couse the NY Times is getting the answer it wants.


Of course, the article itself is filled with bias. Regarding the underlined below, it is written to influence you to think the tea party is "outside the mainstream." Not mentioned is that spending is at unprecedented levels. The underlined could have also read: "without reining in unsustainable spending levels."
 

Yahoo : ...Not all the anger is necessarily aimed at Washington, however. Public perception of the tea party movement, which many see as the driving force that kept Republicans from voting to raising the debt ceiling without implementing unprecedented spending reductions, is at a record low. In a New York Times/CBS poll released Friday, 40 percent of respondents said they held an "unfavorable" view of the movement, up from 29 percent before the debt negotiations began in April, and higher than any number since pollsters started asking the question last year. One in five respondents said they approved of the tea party, down from 26 percent a few months ago.


Congress, as usual, fared the worst. The legislative branch almost never gets high marks from the public, but never before has it earned this level of disapproval. Eighty-two percent in the poll said they disapprove of how members of Congress are doing their jobs--the highest such rate since 1977, when the poll was first taken.

President Obama, on the other hand, was the only one to really escape the negotiation process without deeply damaging blows to his perception, the poll suggested. Almost half (48 percent) said they approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president, a number that has remained stable since late 2009.