A misleading ‘Obamacare’ poll, courtesy of the Chamber of Commerce and Harris Interactive

[applegrove]

A misleading ‘Obamacare’ poll, courtesy of the Chamber of Commerce and Harris Interactive

Posted by Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/a-misleading-obamacare-poll-courtesy-of-the-chamber-of-commerce-and-harris-interactive/2013/07/30/26e5f51c-f94a-11e2-8e84-c56731a202fb_blog.html

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A Chamber spokeswoman, who declined to be identified, acknowledged that only 17 percent of the businesses surveyed said they would be affected by the employer mandate. Put another way, the poll found that 83 percent of small businesses surveyed said they would not be affected by an employer mandate that the Chamber of Commerce has said is a burden on small businesses.

Instead, Harris and the Chamber highlighted the answers of only those affected by the employer mandate. Moreover, they did not disclose that respondents could select as many options as they wanted, meaning the numbers could not be added up, because some executives may have selected more than one answer.

To find out the real values, a two-step process is necessary. First, the numbers have to be significantly reduced to account for the fact that only 17 percent of the sample (222 businesses) answered the question. Then you have to account for the possibility of multiple answers.

We will spare you the calculations, but here’s the bottom line: just 4.5 to 8.5 percent of small business executives surveyed said they will reduce hours or full-time staff in response to the employer mandate. That certainly has a different ring than “74 percent.”


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[freshwest]

1. *snarls* Chamber of Commerce? *hiss*

Thanks for the fact check!

This is how the GOP Koch puppets are going to try to sell shutting down the government in October!

They can just:

[jwirr]

2. Consider the source. The Chamber of Commerce has made it clear what they care about and it is not

good government.

[Zoeisright]

3. Chamber of Commerce sucks rocks.

They are a bunch of Kochsuckers too.

[sheshe2]

4. Ah, the Chamber of Constipation!

I think they need a laxative.

[zbdent]

5. I read a good bit about how the polls are deliberately skewed by those crafting the questions ...

how prescient of Rush Limbaugh in the early early 90s to explain why "Fox" and their ilk are so popular and how the "public opinion" is so easily manipulated today ...

He laid out exactly how the Repugs do it. He just blamed the "liberals" for it ... a local (Bath Ohio) tele-poll company is getting long-overdue scrutiny for their tactics ...