Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat the 2024 election, according to a survey by YouGov.
Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat the 2024 election, according to a survey by YouGov.
Yes, it does smell of bias when we’re talking about statistics and polling. Why would you even mention all that in such a story? It should be a dry, here’s the facts kinda story.
“We believe $X and here’s the polling to prove it.”
The problem with that is that the actual polling questions did not indicate any such bias nor did they try to ask leading questions in the way that you’re implying.
News coverage always has a political viewpoint to express (including the “”“centrist”“” slop that often gets peddaled as “unbiased”), and so yeah, you’ll find such ““bias”” as maybe we shouldn’t be engaging in a horrific genocide from progressive news outlets. But the polling questions were pretty direct and clear in a non-leading way.
Imagine thinking that Palestinians being human beings is indicative of a bias. Yikes…
Yes, it does smell of bias when we’re talking about statistics and polling. Why would you even mention all that in such a story? It should be a dry, here’s the facts kinda story.
“We believe $X and here’s the polling to prove it.”
The problem with that is that the actual polling questions did not indicate any such bias nor did they try to ask leading questions in the way that you’re implying.
News coverage always has a political viewpoint to express (including the “”“centrist”“” slop that often gets peddaled as “unbiased”), and so yeah, you’ll find such ““bias”” as maybe we shouldn’t be engaging in a horrific genocide from progressive news outlets. But the polling questions were pretty direct and clear in a non-leading way.