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Posted: 11/23/09 1:26 pm • # 1

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OOPS!!! ~ I almost feel sorry for anyone having a "thick as a brick" moment ~ especially on networkï¿½TV ~ but I truly love making it fit into a pie chart ~

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By Ben Armbruster at 5:44 pm

Fox's Fuzzy Math: 193 Percent Of The Public Support Palin, Huckabee, And Romney

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:

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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:

In fact, the poll Harlan referred to did not ask Republican respondents to pick their favorite candidate. The numbers he cited merely represent favorable ratings among Republicans surveyed for each individual. Watch Harlan's report:

(HT: Twitter user Kevinthepang)

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/23/fox-pie-chart/

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Calluna

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Posted: 11/23/09 4:24 pm • # 2

They must have done the polling in Chicago. That's the only city I can think of where 193% of the population votes. [img]/domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/happy.gif[/img]

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Posted: 11/24/09 12:27 am • # 3

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Must be a poll conducted in Afghanistan by the RNC.

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sooz06

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Posted: 11/24/09 7:08 am • # 4

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Calluna wrote:

They must have done the polling in Chicago. That's the only city I can think of where 193% of the population votes.

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macroscopic

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Posted: 11/24/09 7:28 am • # 5

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i guess they didn't teach pie charts in their homeschool.

oh- and i think it is OPINION DYNAMICS, not....what they said.

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Calluna

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Posted: 11/24/09 8:55 am • # 6

Okay, I actually watched the clip now (I thought it would be longer, so just followed text before). LOL! What do you expect from a talking head who seems to be trying to sound out the words on the teleprompter as he's saying them?

I love how they just say "...is at 60%..." and nothing about 60% of WHAT?! And, terrible, terrible, terrible that the original poll had Oprah in it and they didn't even mention her!

Fox isn't even trying to look credible anymore. They've always had biased news, but that used to just be by not mentioning the negative things about the Republicans and harping on the negative about Democrats. I don't think they used to actually fabricate stories and cram things into a pie chart that mean nothing (maybe they thought if they made the pie chart 3D, it could be twice as thick...sort of like their viewers?).

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