Be Vewy Vewy Quiet. I'm hunting Crosstabs

This Morn­ing on Morn­ing Joe they are quot­ing NYT/​CBS polls con­cern­ing swing states. The claim is that Rom­ney is trail­ing in Wis­con­sin & Va but ahead in Colorado.

Hear­ing the report I went straight to the story at the times and looked for the crosstabs.

They weren’t there.

Then I went to the “how the polls were con­ducted” page. They had a link to NY Times polls and clicked there next.

There are a lot of charts and a lot of fancy graph­ics, and even a video or two. It sure looks pretty.

What isn’t there is the following

The Demo­c­rat vs GOP split on the polls

The Split of how the vot­ers polled voted in 2008

or if it’s there it’s hid­ing REALLY good.

We’ve already seen polls skewed far­ther and far­ther in order to show the pres­i­dent keep­ing pace with Mitt Rom­ney, now appar­ently we’ve reached the point where we either are not going to put up the cross tabs (at worst) or at best will wait until after the morn­ing shows so the nar­ra­tive is estab­lished before cross tabs are there.

If your goal is to advance the president’s cam­paign, this is a smart move, but if you as a “news” orga­ni­za­tion have a goal of inform­ing the pub­lic then it’s BS.

Dick Mor­ris (who I usu­ally don’t have a lot of time for) put it well:

The media is try­ing to cre­ate a sense of momen­tum and inevitabil­ity about the Obama can­di­dacy. One benighted Newsweek reporter even spec­u­lated about a pos­si­ble Demo­c­ra­tic landslide.

On Fri­day, I saw the real num­bers. These state-​by-​state polls, taken by an orga­ni­za­tion I trust (after 40 years of polling), show the real story. The tally is based on more than 600 likely-​voter inter­views in each swing state within the past eight days.

The trend line is dis­tinctly pro-​Romney.

In 2010 it wasn’t until the fail­ure of the John Stew­art Rally the week­end before the elec­tion that the media decided to report on what was actu­ally going on.

It’s been my opin­ion they will be forced to do oth­er­wise before that, but if we’ve reached the point where they are hid­ing or delay­ing cross tabs on Aug 8^th God knows what they will be doing in October.

Bot­tom line, they assume you are idiots.

Update: A new page but still no over­all break­downs. I won­der why?
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