This is news to Kos? Every time I went over to his site Obama was polling high up into the sky. EVERY other pollster had him in the 50s and 40s, but his was the only one that didn’t.
I figured he was paying for the results he wanted to see. How could this be news to him?
This is going to ripple through the media. Lots of them used Daily Kos/Research2000 polls. The Washington Post had them on their list of Approved Pollsters.
Here’s a quote from the Des Moines Register:
“The liberal website Daily Kos has accused its former polling firm, Research 2000, of fraud. It may sue the company.
Why does this matter to Iowans? Research 2000 has done a lot of polling this year for KCCI-TV, including a poll earlier this month that showed Chuck Grassley with just an 8 point lead over Roxanne Conlin. A day later, a different polling company gave Grassley a 26 point lead.”
Lots of red faces amongst the ink-stained wretches of the main stream media.
I think it was not all skewed in favor of Obama.
Some good info here: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/06/my-own-suspicions-about-research-2000.html
“I figured he was paying for the results he wanted to see. How could this be news to him?”
The obama honeymoon is over - even for kos. Now he’s trying futilely to salvage some vestige of a reputation of actually caring about the facts.