Pan-blue media surveys about Taipei election all wrong

It's almost as if the pan-blue media outlets had simply called Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) headquarters and asked, "What numbers should we publish?" "Talking Show" tells us about the lies.

這好像泛藍媒體只有打電話問中國國民黨總部"我們應該說甚麼?"的樣子.
── 由 "大話新聞" 為你揭穿謊言.

Here's some discussion of what the pan-blue media said before the election in Taipei.

The first paper is identifiable by the writing at the top of the page as being the pan-blue, pro-unification China Times. The big headline says that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate Hau Lung-bin will get 48% of the vote, while his opponent Frank Hsieh of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will get only 22%. In the election, Hsieh got 41% -- a 19 percentage point difference from this paper's "survey" results.

The second paper is also recognizable as the China Times. The headline says that Hsieh has "slipped to 18%, Hau rising." This one is off Hsieh's final result by 23 percentage points!

The third paper *appears* to be China Times, but we know that this part of the segment is about pan-blue media's awful reports. The host says in Taiwanese, "This one is even more exaggerated." It has Hau at 44% and Hsieh at 17% -- wrong about Hsieh by 24 percentage points.

(Host Cheng Hung-yi wraps the segment up.)

Read more from after the election here:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/12/10/2003339829

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[TimMaddog]

Frank Hsieh was a rather *gracious* loser. Watch the video, if you dare:

watch?v=mzPItP7Y-yg

[RealTinker]

"It's almost as if ..."

->Shameless attempt at insinuation, in line with the standards of the DPP.

Thank goodness, Frankie ended up the (sore) loser.