Raw Story's reporting that Karl Rove blew some smoke about polling with a National Public Radio host at the big White House "Radio Day" propaganda-fest tuesday. Rove was pushing the idea that secret polling shows the GOP keeping control.
"I see several things," Rove told NPR host Robert Seigel. "First of all, unlike the general public, I'm allowed to the see the polls on the individual races. And after all, this does come down to individual contests between individual candidates."
The problem with that statement is that its not so much inaccurate as it is a complete load. Rove does see internal polling that isn't shared with the public -- it's basically the electoral equivalent of market research. Trend polling, focus groups on campaign ads and speeches, etc. There's nothing different about this polling that would make them more accurate...
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Tags: news politics elections republican Bush Karl Rove Ken Mehlman poll
Thursday, October 26, 2006
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