Reuters reports:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has more than twice the support of his challenger as he seeks a big re-election win on December 3, a poll said on Tuesday.But:
The Center for Political and Social Studies, a Spanish group that commissioned a poll by Madrid's Complutense University, pegged support for Chavez at 57.8 percent.
A few days ago Venezuelan official media published a poll that was allegedly conducted by Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Given that official media posted the poll, Reuters -in customary irresponsible and sloppy fashion- reprinted the stuff without even considering checking with Universidad Complutense whether or not it was done by them, as claimed. It took me a phone call and an email to find out that this poll was neither conducted by Universidad Complutense nor its results are endorsed by it.Indeed.
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Obviously Hugo Chavez's phony pollsters are so utterly unreliable that Reuters and other international media outlets would do well in doing their bloody jobs, research a bit and inform the public about the shady connections between these organizations and the Bolivarian regime.
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