You want to see how FiredUp works? Tony Wyche, listed as a spokesperson for the Carnahan campaign, sent out the results of an online survey claiming Robin was ahead of Roy Blunt to Steve Walsh of Missourinet.
Steve Walsh writes about it, but asks who the vendor is.
I must confess ... I am not familiar with the polling firm - YouGovPolimetrix - but we present the results for your consideration, just the same.
Who is YouGov Polimetrix? They were the worst polling outfit in 2008 according to the WSJ.
If so, Internet polling has a ways to go by 2012. The only pollster active in every state in the final week, YouGov/Polimetrix, surveyed people from among a panel who were randomly selected and invited to participate in its political polls. In many states, the sample size was under 500. And YouGov's median error of 4.1 percentage points -- including, notably, an eight-point margin for Sen. McCain in Indiana -- was higher than for each of the active phone pollsters.
FiredUp then posts the item, pretending they picked it up from Missourinet, ignoring the fact that the original story came straight from the Carnahan campaign.
Despite being a questionable poll, one wonders why .Sean didn't just post the results directly from the SwingState Project? Even the commenters laugh at it. That's where Tony took it from. Why pretend it came from a news source, when that news source points out it came from Carnahan campaign spokesman Tony Wyche?
Because he's a dirty liar, that's why. Sean is trying to manufacture news to uh, blunt the impact of the Rasmussen poll of likely voters putting Roy up six points. Nice try, but no one's buying it.
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