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After saying Giuliani is "right to dismiss" polls, Cavuto let him tout his lead of "more than double digits"
During his interview with Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on the October 30 edition of Fox News' Your World, host Neil Cavuto said: "[P]olls are polls -- and you're right to dismiss them, I know as you do on the stump." Cavuto then cited an October 17-24 University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll showing Giuliani statistically tied for second place in Iowa with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and asked Giuliani: "[A]re you worried that Huckabee is actually the rising star here and threatening you?" Giuliani responded by touting his lead in the polls, saying: "[P]olls are polls, and there are a hundred of them, and we're ahead in about 98 of the hundred, in just about every state," adding, "[W]e're ahead in the national polls by double digits, we're ahead in every big state by sometimes more than double digits." Cavuto offered no challenge to Giuliani's touting of his performance in the polls, despite having just commended him for "dismiss[ing]" polls "on the stump."
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Posted by tommy
Typical politician. They dismiss the polls they are behind in, and tout the ones they lead in. If this does anything it furthers the fact that politicians speak out of both sides of their mouths.
Posted Wednesday October 31, 2007 12:05:12 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by IRONY 101
"...polls are polls -- and you're right to dismiss them..."
Dumb statement of the day...
Polls are the lifeblood of all candidates for political office. While certainly every political candidate scrutinzes and analyzes polls for meaning, to make a blanket statement that a candidate is right to dismiss polls is ludicrous.
It's not just Cavuto and FOX, though...I find political analysis on cable news shows to be very uneven. Now and then you may stumble upon someone who consistently makes sense, but there is so much blather today on cable news one's first inclination is to tune it out.
Posted Wednesday October 31, 2007 12:12:13 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by dexteritas0071418
What should've been Giuliani's response:
"Well Neil, since you decided to competely destroy my "98 out of 100" polls talking point by your introduction, I'm simply going to answer with this:
9/11."
Posted Wednesday October 31, 2007 12:14:40 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by pete592 in reply to dexteritas0071418
"9 out of 11 polls say that 9 out of 11 Republicans favor me...
I'd say that 9 out of 11 times I'm right about this, and there's a 9 in 11 chance you'll agree with me...
Interestingly, 9 out of 11 dentists recommend sugarless gum for their patience who chew gum...
The other day I spoke to an Iraq veteran who lost 9 of his 11 fingers in combat...
Hey, you gotta admit, 9 out of 11 marriages lasting more than 9 or 11 months ain't bad."
Posted Wednesday October 31, 2007 1:08:11 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by NiceguyEddie in reply to pete592
You b@st@rd! I'm at the office, for crying out loud! You almost got me in trouble, 'cause I can't stop laughing!
Hilarious! You should write speeches for this guy!!! (Or Colbert!)
Posted Wednesday October 31, 2007 2:14:34 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by johnny_nyc8351
Rudy doesn't need any stinkin' polls as long as he has that noun, verb, 9/11 thing going for him.
Posted Wednesday October 31, 2007 12:25:27 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Handsome Pete in reply to johnny_nyc8351
Biden did have a good line there. I wonder who wrote it for him.
Posted Wednesday October 31, 2007 4:33:22 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by RoberttheP
Polls mean nothing right now, afteralll Howard Dean was allready annointed President 4 years ago . Look how that turned out.
Posted Wednesday October 31, 2007 1:04:29 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by neondesert
George "Commander Guy" and Katherine Harris deftly illustrated in 2000 that Cavuto is right - the polls really don't matter.
Posted Wednesday October 31, 2007 1:05:00 PM EDT / Flag this comment