Extreme Right websites love polls–those little questionnaires that purport to measure audience opinion. The current O’Reilly Factor poll (11/10/08) illustrates the loaded question fallacy :
Q. What worries you most about an Obama administration?
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Who said we were worried, let alone that these four scenarios are likely in an Obama administration? To make any decision at all requires respondents to impugn the President-Elect. (Results as of this writing: Higher taxes: 72%; Weakened national defense: 8%; Liberal judges: 18%; Open borders: 2%.)
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