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CNN Poll Rates Obama's First Fifty Days As "Yes" Or "No"

In the clearest sign yet that CNN has maybe laid off all the wrong people, comes news that a poll has been created and edited by people who were vastly unclear on the whole concept of polling.
Jason Linkins
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Eat The Press Editor, HuffPost

In the clearest sign yet that CNN has maybe laid off all the wrong people, comes news that a poll the news organization put on their website to allow users to rate President Barack Obama's first fifty days may have been created and edited by people who were vastly unclear on the whole concept of polling. Click here to see a screenshot of the whole page, from Digg, if you like. Here's a closeup of the salient part:

Yeah. Now, I'm not a polling and statistics genius like Nate Silver, but I have a feeling that CNN is just not doing a good job capturing the opinion of all the people who would rate Obama's first fifty days as "Maybe."

Via Patrick Gavin, for what it's worth, 69% of those polled were of the opinion that Obama's first fifty days were "Yes."

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