I hate public opinion polls, and I hate the way the media spins them.  As I’ve pointed out in the past, these polls consistently over sample democrats by about 5 - 10 points skewing the results of the polls themselves.  And even after that skewing, if there are results in the poll itself that don’t quite play as nicely in the headlines as the liberal left wants them to we never hear about those results.  We only hear about those negative for the President and Republicans.

For instance, with this most recent CNN poll we’re told that the results indicate a majority of Americans not liking Bush’s veto of the Democrats’ Iraq spending bill, and that a lot of them want the Dems to send another bill to the President with a withdrawal date.  Yet there are some other results in that same poll that are very interesting but aren’t being reported on by CNN.

Like the fact that the number of people who favor the Iraq war has not plunged over the last year, as we’re told so often in the media, but pretty much remained constant:

A lot more poll respondents favor a bill from Congress with set benchmarks for Iraq rather than a hard withdrawal date which the Democrats wanted:

The idea of setting a hard withdrawal date for March of next year is immensely unpopular:

The sort of Iraq funding bill poll respondents favor most is one that does not set a hard withdrawal date:

Poll respondents think the President is very supportive of the troops while the Democrats....not so much:

Poll respondents blame the Democrats most for not getting funding to the troops:

And, finally, a strong majority of poll respondents don’t think the war in Iraq is lost (unlike Harry Reid and the Democrats):

All of these results are positive for the President, Republicans in general and the war effort.  Yet somehow all of these results got ignored in the CNN article about the poll.  Why?  Probably because they’re inconvenient for the Democrats.

Especially those last three results.

And just think, this poll undoubtedly (in my humble opinion, though the numbers aren’t available to be sure) oversampled Democrats, because these polls always do.

Now, again, I hate media polls.  I put next to no stock in them, but if the media is going to conduct them and report on them the least they could do is highlight all of the results in the poll.  Not just the ones the Democrats like to see in the headlines.