Water Over Gold
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fit their "narrative"? It gives the impression that they don't have any substantive results to defend so instead they must rely on perception and crafting a political narrative (that may or may not be accurate). These poll numbers obviously complicate that effort.
What do you think?? Should Dems have just ignored this ??
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33003.html
Frustrated by a series of polls detailing the electoral jeopardy faced by a handful of House Democrats, the party establishment in Washington is pushing back against liberal blogger Jane Hamsher, whose prominent blog Firedoglake commissioned the surveys...............In an interview, Hamsher said she conducted the polls in order to test support in swing districts for an individual mandate in a health care reform bill. With the future of health care reform now unclear, Hamsher said she is not planning any further polling on candidates.
She disputed the notion that somehow the polling advances a negative story line about Democrats and accused the party of shooting the messenger by engaging in a concerted campaign to taint the polling her site commissioned.
“We commissioned the polls prior to the Massachusetts election. So they actually were the ‘canary in a coal mine’ and preceded that piece of collective wisdom,” Hamsher said. “I think it’s pretty plain. [Democrats] don’t like the results of the surveys. They’re interested in discounting the accuracy of the poll for political purposes.”
“If they don’t like the poll, why don’t they release the polling of their own?” Hamsher asked.
What do you think?? Should Dems have just ignored this ??
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33003.html
Frustrated by a series of polls detailing the electoral jeopardy faced by a handful of House Democrats, the party establishment in Washington is pushing back against liberal blogger Jane Hamsher, whose prominent blog Firedoglake commissioned the surveys...............In an interview, Hamsher said she conducted the polls in order to test support in swing districts for an individual mandate in a health care reform bill. With the future of health care reform now unclear, Hamsher said she is not planning any further polling on candidates.
She disputed the notion that somehow the polling advances a negative story line about Democrats and accused the party of shooting the messenger by engaging in a concerted campaign to taint the polling her site commissioned.
“We commissioned the polls prior to the Massachusetts election. So they actually were the ‘canary in a coal mine’ and preceded that piece of collective wisdom,” Hamsher said. “I think it’s pretty plain. [Democrats] don’t like the results of the surveys. They’re interested in discounting the accuracy of the poll for political purposes.”
“If they don’t like the poll, why don’t they release the polling of their own?” Hamsher asked.