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Daily Kos Dismisses Pollster
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jun 09, 2010 04:30pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Steven Shepard |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 9, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "The liberal website DailyKos.com has chosen to terminate its relationship with MD-based pollster Research 2000, according to DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas.
"I have decided to part ways with our current pollster, and will be looking for a new polling partner to finish out this election cycle," Moulitsas wrote in a statement posted on his site.
Research 2000 Pres. Del Ali confirmed the split in an interview with Hotline OnCall.
Moulitsas' decision comes in the wake of last night's AR SEN Dem primary runoff, in which Sen. Blanche Lincoln held off LG Bill Halter, Daily Kos' preferred candidate. The website promoted Halter as a replacement on the Dem ticket months before he announced his candidacy, and the site's readers were encouraged to contribute to his insurgent campaign.
Research 2000 conducted two polls for the site between the primary and the runoff. While Halter posted narrow leads in both polls, Ali noted to Hotline OnCall that those leads were within the polls' margin of error.
"It's not 'Dewey Defeats Truman'," Ali said, "but that's the way it goes."
AR SEN wasn't Research 2000's only high-profile "miss" of the primary season. In a poll conducted May 17-19, Research 2000 showed Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) leading his state's GOV primary over Ag. Commis. Ron Sparks (D), 41-33%. But Sparks trounced Davis, 62-38%, in the June 2 primary.
Ali told Hotline OnCall that criticism of the AL survey was unfair because it was conducted two weeks before the election. Indeed, part of the problem may have been the dearth of public polling in the race; the Research 2000 poll was the only live-caller poll received by The Hotline in the year preceding the election." |
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