Pollsters Raise Alarm: Inaccurate Polls May Be Impacting Campaigns

A remarkable bi-partisan group of campaign pollsters released an open letter this afternoon that assailed the "sometimes uncritical media coverage" of the "proliferation" of public pre-election polls that fail to disclose basic information about how they are conducted and that "have the capacity to shape media and donor reactions to election contests." Full Story »

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by Jon Mitchell - Nov. 9, 2010

This is more a report about the campaign, rather than an investigation into the abuses alleged by it, but it's an important and enterprising news story. I appreciated this report from an independent news source criticizing oversights and inaccuracies in the way mainstream media report in election season.

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