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[sufrommich]

1. I've never heard of them,are they new? nt

[Renew Deal]

3. Someone wrote a long post about them a few days ago

I didn't read much of it, but here it is...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251951829

[riversedge]

10. It is well worth the time to read.

[Dem2]

16. Thanks for the link

Thread worth reading

[saltpoint]

4. They're new to me.

Never heard of them before.

But if a company is doing polling, it seems to me that it should be required to have a business address. Don't Secretaries of State in all 50 states oversee commercial business transactions within their respective states?

Zorro has to keep the mask on. I get that. But a public opinion polling organization? They need to be on the info grid.

[DCBob]

5. Probably funded by some Republican billionaire.

Attempting to disrupt the Democratic primary.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. You are giving them way too much credit.

I suspect the numbers are made up.

[sufrommich]

8. I doubt a billionaire would use WordPress to create a blog.nt

[Motown_Johnny]

11. Aldelson recently bought a newspaper.

I know next to nothing about WordPress or the newspaper business, but might there be a connection here? Not that he would create a blog himself, he would have minions to do that for him.



http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/why-did-sheldon-adelson-buy-nevadas-largest-newspaper/421035/


^snip^


Why Did Sheldon Adelson Buy Nevada's Largest Newspaper?

The right-wing billionaire now owns the top source of news in a politically important state—and no one knows what he plans to do with it.


Last Thursday afternoon, the staff of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada’s largest newspaper, was summoned to a meeting with the publisher, Jason Taylor. No topic was specified; employees wondered if the paper’s corporate owners, who had purchased the publication in March, might be getting a new headquarters to replace its dingy, windowless, inner-city warehouse.

Instead, they learned that the paper had again been sold—and the buyer was a secret.

The new owner, News + Media Capital Group, was a mysterious entity that had come out of nowhere. Incorporated in Delaware in September, its only public representative was a Connecticut newspaper publisher named Michael Schroeder, who issued a statement and declined to speak further. Whoever the new owners were, they appeared to have dramatically overpaid. In March, the Review-Journal (“the R-J” to locals) had been sold along with seven other daily newspapers and 65 local weeklies in seven states for $102.5 million. News + Media had paid $140 million for the R-J alone.


Who would pay way too much for a random local broadsheet in a financially troubled industry? It would have to be someone whose goal wasn’t to make money, but to control a major apparatus of the Las Vegas media. Speculation swirled over the weekend, quickly centering around Sheldon Adelson, the shadowy right-wing billionaire who serves as chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands casino empire. The paper’s own reporters publicly decried the lack of transparency, and set to work investigating the matter. (I worked at the R-J for three and a half years, serving as the paper’s Vegas-based political writer from 2006 to 2009.)

[OilemFirchen]

7. Mystery?

It's a yahoo with an agenda, a computer and, maybe, a telephone.

Solved!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Even without controls it would take one person a long time...

Even without controls it would take one person a long time to actually reach four hundred people over the phone and get them to answer a question.

[OilemFirchen]

17. Thus the "maybe".

It only takes minutes to make up numbers. Virtually anyone can do it, and it would appear that someone has.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. I suspect the numbers are made up.

I have never seen a poll where you couldn't find a real person with a name attached to it.

[OilemFirchen]

19. I also suspect that we've met the "pollster".

He was summarily PPRed, IIRC.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. I would like to start a legitimate polling organization but it's expensive.

I would like to start a legitimate polling organization but it's expensive, especially if you want to do it right.


Back to overtime...It is on a free website so you can't identify the administrator. With just about any poll you can find a real person behind it, with a little digging.

[99Forever]

13. Who gives a rat's ass.

ALL polling is bullshit propaganda. ALL OF IT. Nothing but another slimy tool of the scumbag establishment. Lies, big lies, and huge lies. ALL OF THEM.

[Ferd Berfel]

14. Here ya go - THIS is BETTER - Domain registered in Queensland - Ring any bells?

Not sayin thatthis domain IS OWNED by Uncle Rupert.......but...

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