In a set up to an interview with Senators Jim Webb (D-VA) and Richard Burr (R-NC), MSNBC's painful David Gregory gave an "update" on polling in those two states:
Notice the dates of those polls?
The Virginia poll is two weeks old. According to Pollster.com, there have been five other more recent polls in Virginia since the one Gregory chose to highlight. But, coincidentally or not, the poll he broadcast is the last to show a McCain lead.
The North Carolina poll is a week old. Pollster.com shows there here have been four other polls in North Carolina since then. Three of them show Obama in the lead. One has a tie.
David Gregory should be embarrassed. He should learn about the really great sites with up-to-date polls, like Pollster.com and FiveThirtyEight.com. Those polls Gregory showed aren't "news." Not even close. He's making himself look either out-of-touch or biased by using polls that are so out-dated. Maybe part of the deal Tom Brokaw cut with the McCain campaign was to highlight old polls that showed McCain in the lead.
The Duplicity of Jim Cooper...
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...and the reporters who enable him. Both BTD and David Dayen catch Jim
Cooper in gross duplicity yesterday.
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