Faithful America starts petition to stop ridiculous exit poll practice February 20, 2008
Posted by Zack in DC | 7 comments
The newly relaunched group Faithful America has started a petition to stop exit polls that ask only Republicans about their religious affiliation and church attendance:
The presidential primary exit polls, sponsored by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and the AP, must stop stereotyping people of faith. We call on the media pollsters to ask all voters — Republicans and Democrats — the same religion questions on the exit poll surveys.
What’s also incredible, by the way, is that the same exit polls only ask Democrats about union membership.
Do TV ratings depend on telling a meta-story of an America divided into two completely separate cultures or something? Why do they run their polls this way?
Faithful America is a project of Faith in Public Life, the organization that commissioned its own exit polls that showed that religion and political parties do not match up. A whole lot of people have been complaining about this polling issue, and it’s great that Faith in Public Life and now Faithful America are standing up and doing something about it.
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