
Reporting on the latest Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll last night on Fox News' local Chicago affiliate, anchor Byron Harlan employed some funny math in asserting that Sarah Palin is leading the pack for the GOP nomination in 2012:
HARLAN: It looks as if the rogue route is helping Sarah Palin. Her book tour has meant new support. A new Opinion Dynamics poll for 2012 shows her on top when it comes to landing the nomination. Palin is at 70 percent, about a third higher than this past July. Mike Huckabee stands at 63 percent. Mitt Romney's 60.
Those figures add up to 193 percent. An accompanying graphic tried to squeeze the numbers into one pie chart:
So given Fox's recent history of on-screen propaganda errors, one might be tempted to assume that this is Fox trying to inflate the size of crowds as usual.
But probably not.... this strikes me as more a case of "stupid" than "partisan." Though, apparently Fox is doing its part to stimulate the economy by giving graphics production jobs to people without a 4th Grade education.
If Palin is put on the ballot and wins. I WILL be leaving the country.
I always KNEW they were Orwellian...
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