On that NYT/CBS poll

Bush at 44%, Wrong Track at 59%, Right Security Decisions 68%

Link.

I know Andrew Sullivan is probably right - on both points - about the poll being bad for Bush and Kerry. But I have to say, when I see a NYT/CBS I just discount it. Yes, I actually believe that both of these organizations are actually corrupt enough to rig a poll and publish it. I truly believe they would do this.

I would feel the same if the poll was Bush up by ten - it would simply mean they are trying to get Dems to vote and encourage R's not to. I realize this isn't quite rational, but I simply cannot believe a word spoken or written by these sources.

I just have zero faith in anything coming from CBS or the Times. Just zero. They are simply not credible sources for this election. Their allegiance, and the lengths they will go to advocate it is simply too established.

Though my reaction would be more friendly, I would similarly discount a Heritage Foundation/WSJ poll. It's not so much a conscious dishonesty (though that it quite possible) as an institutionalized ideological mindset that forfeits any semblance of objectivity.