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Corrections:
Thursday's poll question results incorrectly stated that 87 percent of respondents said the federal government should not fund stem cell research. In fact, 87 percent said it should fund the research....

The figures did surprise me yesterday; now I know why. I assume this was a simple mistake, but it got me thinking: if a newspaper with an agenda wanted to mislead people, it could make a "simple mistake" on purpose and issue a correction the next day, knowing full well that the correction would gain less attention. It's particularly tricky with internal poll results, since few outsiders would know the truth. Of course, they couldn't do it too often, or correction readers would start to catch on.

...Right?

Right.

I'd have to agree...it was likely deliberate. What paper was this from? That would probably give a better idea.

It's the Express, a publication of The Washington Post that gets distributed free at subway stations. Because of its nature, it tends to be short on detail and big on errors, most of them typographical.

The Washington Post

I recently saw Good Night, and Good Luck so this doesn't exactly surprise me.