Peculiar polling

Atrios points to a CBS poll writeup that seems to plain glow with headline bias. Though it shows that the recent good economic news has given Bush a bump in his approval numbers for the economy, it also shows him at his lowest overal approval ever in a CBS poll. What's the headline?

Economy gives Bush a poll boost

Egad! How dare they! But wait. The same poll is referenced two other times on CBSNews.com, with two entirely different headlines.

Poll: More Say Iraq’s Going Badly

And

Poll: Economy, Jobs Top Concerns

Freaky! But why stop at 3, CBS? Here are a few more suggested headlines that you can scatter randomly around your site, each pointing to a slightly different version of the same poll, pre-biased to whatever viewpoint you feel like pimping today. Free of charge. You can thank me later.

• Poll: Majority of Americans think Bush mostly dishonest about Iraq WMD
• Poll: Majority of Americans think Iraq has WMD
• Poll: Majority think Bush policies favor rich
• Sour grapes poll: poor lose jobs, blame Bush rich-favoring
• Right-thinking 5% think Iraq reconstruction is all right
• More Americans think Iraq war will make no difference to US safety
• Some Americans wonder: what’s for dinner?
• Majority say: you just ate. What are you, a pig?
• 50% of Americans have forgotten what they ate for dinner not 3 hours ago
• Americans split over funny poll headlines
• 83% of Americans say question is academic, fake poll headlines “never funny”
• 50% of American children think you hit me first
• No I didn’t!
• Shut up!
• Mom!

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