PUSH POLLSTER?:

IS ZOGBY A FRAUD? (Patrick Ruffini, 10/16/02)

It's well known that Zogby, whose brother contributes to the anti-American, anti-Israel Arab News, is an outspoken critic of war with Iraq. Lately, Zogby has fashioned himself as a spokesman for the Arab American community and as a student of Arab opinion more broadly. He's conducted polls soliciting the opinions of pawns in dictatorial regimes like Iran and Saudi Arabia on why we shouldn't go to war with Iraq, and has openly suggested a political motive behind the Administration's war preparations. The questions he asks in his domestic polling on Iraq are highly suggestive and show that he's not beyond using his surveys as a weapon to shift public discourse against the war.

Mr. Ruffini, without being sensationalistic about it, raises what seem to be some valid questions as to whether Mr. Zogby's personal politics may be filtering over into the poll numbers he's producing. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 16, 2002 1:03 PM