Posted on 09/02/2011 9:18:19 AM PDT by Al B.
Fox News released its first poll Thursday since Rick Perry's entry into the presidential race, showing the Texas governor drawing 26 percent of the GOP primary vote and leading Mitt Romney by 8 points.
What caught one reader's attention, though, wasn't the size of Perry's lead, but the name of Fox's Republican pollster: Shaw & Company Research, a Texas-based firm that conducts the Fox survey in cooperation with the Democratic pollster Anderson Robbins Research. Continue Reading
The Shaw in Shaw & Company is Daron Shaw, a University of Texas political science professor and veteran of several GOP campaigns, whose name has been in the news a bit lately.
That's because Shaw is one of the starring players in Sasha Issenberg's e-book, "Rick Perry and His Eggheads: Inside the Brainiest Political Operation in America," which details a groundbreaking set of experiments that Shaw and three other academics conducted inside Perry's 2006 reelection campaign.
The Perry campaign allowed the so-called eggheads to run tests on "anything [they] could figure out how to randomize, from lawn signs to television ads," Issenberg writes, and they assembled a provocative set of findings on which kinds of campaign tactics really work.
Fast forward five years and Perry is running for president and Shaw is one of the lead pollsters for the most influential cable network, by far, among GOP primary voters.
Shaw told me this morning that there's no conflict of interest involved, since he wasn't paid by Perry for the campaign experiments and "because we're stupid, we never entered into any business relationship with Perry."
Nor, he said, was his role to advise Perry's reelection bid on strategy: "We'd just present the results and then the Perry people would do want they want."
Shaw was an analyst on the 1992 George H. W. Bush reelection campaign and the 2000 George W. Bush campaign. He and his Democratic counterpart, Chris Anderson, took over the Fox News poll earlier this year, but Shaw has been on the decision desk for the network going back to the 2002 cycle.
Though he has worked in political consulting, Shaw said he doesn't take federal or gubernatorial clients so as to avoid "even the appearance of a conflict of interest."
Let me guess.... another rabid Perry Kool-aid drinker?
Is 26% Rick Perry’s ceiling? Do you see how stupid your comments make you look?
There are no polls that take the position in which you claim. There are only blogger that twist words to present a picture that they want to draw.
Don’t be a sheep think for yourself.
Yes, she does. I heard it from her own lips on Culture Warriors.
It absolutely blew me away.
I think I even wrote an article on it at the time. I’ll see if I can find it.
Isn't Hoover married to to Newsweek/Daily Beast's John Avlon? Thought I heard that somewhere.
The polls months ago that had Palin winning a little bit and she hasn’t even declared were posted as breaking news.So now all polls are cooked?Ya’ll have stepped into the rubber room and need straight jackets now.
I don’t read polls so I have no idea what poll you are talking about. Polls are not elections and are seldom honest.
We will never be anything but good FRiends. I refuse to make political enemies except with democrats...lol. I read that endearing post the day you posted it. I don’t share your high opinion of the Governor but I also know he’s not the devil incarnate either. I have some serious concerns about him, but it’s way too early in the nominating process for me to concentrate on anyone else but Governor Sarah Palin. Whilst nobody’s looking, she has a lot of us busy organizing for her, but she’s not running, so what the hay, right? LOL..
Perry didn't quit his job as Governor of Texas 2 years ago to devote himself full time to making money and campaigning. Palin did. She's been running non stop since 'Maverick' McCain lost! Do you understand that? Do you see how st6upid your refusal to see facts as they are makes you look?
WOW! Excellent memory! Yes, that's Hoover's libtard husband!
I think you have it about right. Perry normally does well in debates, which will make it difficult ffor Bachmann (also my preferred candidate). The main thing is that Mittens needs to be buried.
It's "Project Politician: one day you're in, the next day you're out".
The penchant to go off in non-sequiturs shows a lack of mental cohesion as well...
WHOA! Gretchen Carlson is a shocker. Huddy not.
There’s that MSM meme again. I can watch CNN, MSNBC, any of them, and get the same propaganda.
Good. I consider you too good and faithful a conservative. It’s wrong to injure a friend.
All on the whim of the MSM.
Gretchen is apparently no E.D. Hill.
Al B.
Pay no attention to this PDS troll. S/he is incapable of addressing each thread’s topic. It trolls with the same tired postings.
Never mind that this poll is the topic at hand. S/he has an anti-Palin agenda and can’t be bothered with anything else, let alone the facts illuminated in the posted article.
I’m still shocked. E.D. Hill was a good gal. Thanks very much for reminding me of her.
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