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Kos Pollster Fired for Faking Data
The American Thinker Blog ^
| June 29, 2010
| Clarice Feldman
Posted on 06/30/2010 3:41:31 AM PDT by Scanian
Daily Kos is certainly one of the most popular left blog sites, so it is with interest that we learn that its pollster upon whom so much of its stories were based, was just making it up. From NRO:
DailyKos Surveys Likely Bunk, May Have Been Fabricated [Daniel Foster]
"DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas has admitted that some or all of the surveys the site conducted through Research 2000 may be faulty - even fabricated:
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..."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: fake; libmyths; moulitsas; phonysurveys; research2000; rigged
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posted on
06/30/2010 3:41:36 AM PDT
by
Scanian
To: Scanian
Was he fired for faking it, or getting caught?
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posted on
06/30/2010 3:42:50 AM PDT
by
Bernard
(One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Three if by Government)
To: Bernard
Assuming your question is rhetorical in nature? They actually lost their propaganda source.
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posted on
06/30/2010 3:45:56 AM PDT
by
mazda77
(Rubio for US Senate - West FL22nd - JD Hayworth - US Senate)
To: Scanian
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posted on
06/30/2010 4:02:34 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: Scanian
That’s like firing a member of the KGB for being Russian.
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posted on
06/30/2010 4:12:18 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
To: Doogle
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posted on
06/30/2010 4:13:08 AM PDT
by
jafojeffsurf
(Return to the Constitution)
To: Scanian
This is not news to anyone in the business. Research 2000’s fraud is blatant and disgusting.
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posted on
06/30/2010 4:20:20 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: Scanian
"Headline: DailyKos uses fake polling data"
"In related stories, the sky is blue and, yes, a bear truly does olbermann in the woods"
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posted on
06/30/2010 4:24:15 AM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
To: Scanian
I’ve always pronounced the name of that organization “Daily Chaos”. I see no reason to change.
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posted on
06/30/2010 5:08:27 AM PDT
by
Mobties
To: Scanian
Most FReepers are and always have been skeptical of R2000 pools. Seems the FR BS detector still works.
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posted on
06/30/2010 5:18:52 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Sometimes you have to go to dark places to get to the light....)
To: mad_as_he$$
We always laughed when Asspress quoted that crap.
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posted on
06/30/2010 5:20:48 AM PDT
by
Luke21
To: Luke21
Yup. We need to cast doubt on all “polls” from Daily Khaos for a long time.
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posted on
06/30/2010 5:22:29 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Sometimes you have to go to dark places to get to the light....)
To: Scanian
Since when is the Daily Kos or any other liberal scum worried about truth or honesty?
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