Good New Yorker story on Gallup history (they have manipulated polls before)

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The polling organization Gallup created a stir earlier this month when it announced that, going forward, it would refine its polling methodology, emphasizing the preferences of voters considered most likely to vote. The immediate consequence of the shift—the obliteration of a five-point advantage for Obama—has raised the hackles of pundits and the public at large. Some, like Slate’s Sasha Issenberg, have criticized the shift, claiming that likely voters can sometimes lie. Others have questioned why Gallup waited until four weeks before the election to make the change. There’s been a lot of argument about the usefulness of polls in general. Perhaps Gallup’s polls are woefully inaccurate; perhaps that’s true of most polls...


In fact, in 1944, Gallup had tried to resolve this difficulty in a different way: by simply giving Republicans a two-percentage-point advantage in its polls. The organization failed to disclose this step publicly, and there was outcry when it was later revealed at a Congressional hearing.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2012/10/george-gallup-and-the-mystery-of-polls.html#ixzz2AoYuPrT5

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1. K&R

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2. Didn't I read somewhere that Galllup is being sued by the Obama justice Dept for fraud, is this

their payback to get Romney elected to end the law suit. Anyone remember this recently being reported?