Faux News Channel and the CPAC Poll

I noticed this morning that Faux News was reporting Ron Paul’s landslide victory in the CPAC poll of presidential preferences in the moving words at the bottom of the screen.  But the next sentence was, “54% of CPAC attendees were between the ages of 18-25.”

Rather than recognizing that Ron Paul has the youth vote wrapped up among “conservatives,” the clear message here was “they’re just a bunch of kids, pay no attention to the poll.”

Funny, last year, when 57% of CPAC attendees were between 18-25, and neocon Massachusetts statist Mitt Romney won the CPAC poll, I don’t recall any such caveats.

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5:32 pm on February 22, 2010