Entries Tagged as 'Drudge'

How Fox News and Drudge help Obama

November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Pretty accurate, I’d say:
Think about it: the biggest single worry of the Obama campaign has been organizer let-down and voters who get lazy and complacent with such massive leads in the polling data. The Drudge Report, who is influential in driving the news cycle, skews heavily in favor of outlier polls that suggest a down-to-the-wire […]

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Tags: Drudge · Election 2008 · Media · Fox News

Excitable Drudge

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Gallup shocker! Except:
None of the dozen or so other polls that were in the field this week shows a race that close. Nor do either of the alternate versions of Gallup’s model, including the so-called Likely Voters II model that I find most credible. (Drudge, of course, had no interest in featuring the Zogby poll, […]

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Tags: Drudge · Election 2008

Remain calm, all is (not) well

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Sitting around at a kids’ birthday party last night talking with some other parents about the economy, and one of the guys who does some day trading was talking about how there seems to be this desperation to see minor upticks the day after a major sell-off as a “return to normalcy” when in fact […]

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Tags: Drudge · Economy · Media