Posted on 06/29/2010 12:53:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Daily Kos Admits Polls Were Likely Fraudulent BY John McCormack June 29, 2010 2:39 PM
Markos Moulitsas says polls by Research 2000, the left-wing website's pollster until recently, were "likely bunk."
I have just published a report by three statistics wizards showing, quite convincingly, that the weekly Research 2000 State of the Nation poll we ran the past year and a half was likely bunk.
Since the moment Mark Grebner, Michael Weissman, and Jonathan Weissman approached me, I took their concerns seriously and cooperated fully with their investigation. I also offered to run the results on Daily Kos provided that they 1) fully documented each claim in detail, 2) got that documentation peer reviewed by disinterested third parties, and 3) gave Research 2000 an opportunity to respond. By the end of last week, they had accomplished the first two items on that list. I held publication of the report until today, because I didn't want to partake in a cliche Friday Bad News Dump. This is serious business, and I wasn't going to bury it over a weekend.
We contracted with Research 2000 to conduct polling and to provide us with the results of their surveys. Based on the report of the statisticians, it's clear that we did not get what we paid for. We were defrauded by Research 2000, and while we don't know if some or all of the data was fabricated or manipulated beyond recognition, we know we can't trust it.
Jonah Goldberg reminds us that Research 2000 did the polling for Moulitsas' book on how crazy Republicans are.
Liberals LIE.
Liberals LIE.
If LIBERALS told the TRUTH, they would have FEW followers so they ALWAYS have to LIE. When it is finally discovered it is NOT noted in the media.
What were these polls showing? were they pro lib or con?
No mention of that little fact by mr. kos anywhere on the internet and I doubt there will be.
Nah... the “Daily Kon” seems more accurate.
Queue this Inspector Renault...”I’m shocked” photo.
Libs fraudulent?
Riiiiiight.........
What else can they do?
Cheney’s fault.
So can we find this clown’s book in the fiction section where it belongs?
Now who are the stupes at kos and du gonna believe, brokenaxlerod and nobama????
Kos. What a bug-eyed clown.
I’m kind of confused about this. Are they upset because the polls told them what they wanted to hear or are they upset because the polls didn’t tell them what they wanted to hear?
this is so funny. These polls were the center piece of DailyKos for 2 years.
I’ve seen lots of liberals post links to these polls and boast about them.
CNN and MSNBC would take these polls as if they were gold. And even RCP averaged these into their polls.
We-the-people are soverign, but we exercise sovereignty over the government only on election day. We worry enough about fraud there.We have to know that there is very little to hinder works of fiction being promoted as "objective polling data."
Just par for th Kos.
Surprise, surprise!
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