Simon Maloy at Media Matters does a fine job of demolishing Tim Graham’s insistence in an Oct. 21 NewsBusters post that a Washington Post poll showing majority support for a public option is biased or otherwise “stuffing its poll sample” because more respondents identified themselves as Democrats than Republicans. Graham, it seems, is unaware of the concept of random sampling, or the recent documented decline in people identifying themselves as Republicans.
Indeed, the poll’s Repubican/Demmocrat split is not out of line with contemporaneous polling based on random sampling.