CNN Polls Tied to Hillary Donor (CNN Pollster/Clinton supporter Vinod Gupta)

NewsMax.com ^ | June 19, 2007

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Bill and Hillary Clinton’s ties to InfoUSA Chairman Vinod Gupta have raised conflict-of-interest concerns over the firm’s links to CNN.

In December, database company InfoUSA acquired the polling firm Opinion Research Corp., which provides CNN with polling services for its coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Gupta is actively campaigning for Hillary, and as a result the polling firm’s findings "could be perceived as being colored by Gupta’s connections to the Clintons,” TheDeal.com observed.

"In May, for example, CNN cited results of an Opinion Research poll that showed Hillary Clinton gaining momentum among liberal voters, without disclosing that the pollster is owned by a company whose owner is working to elect her.”

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Nobody trusts a presidential poll where the pollster has already declared his preferred candidate the winner and contributed huge donations to her. CNN needs a new polling partner, stat.

See keyword vinodgupta for more on this scandal.

[wk4bush2004]

This does not surprise me. And the Communist News Network would have a problem with this? Nope.

[Asclepius]

This is too funny. Did they think they could get away with this? I just answered my own question. All I had to do was reflect for a moment on all they have gotten away with.

[Triggerhippie]

I'm shocked, shocked to find that bias is going on in here!

[OKIEDOC]

Hummmmmm...very interesting and so true....

Hillary is a lowlife ass...ole and a cockroach besides but don’t let that stop the elitists from avowing their support.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Hillary should become a CGI editor. She is nothing special, but good using effects.

[wai-ming]

Anyone know if Vinod is related to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's senior medical correspondent?

Dr. Gupta partnered with Bill Clinton a few months ago to do a CNN special on AIDS. I wondered why they had chosen Clinton. I thought it was because he had done so much to make the public aware of behaviours that could lead to the disease.

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They’re not related.

[jmaroneps37]

Now who wouldah thunk this?

[Loyal Buckeye]

Didn’t CNN drop its polling relationship with USA Today (Gallup CNN/USA)?

I assume when this relationship ended that each would be able to “pick” their polling results more easily.

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Ooooops.

[JoanneSD]

I thought it was because he had done so much to make the public aware of HIS behaviours that could lead to the disease.

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Just because 95% of journalists are DNC activists doesn’t mean they can’t be objective!

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