Pharos Research Group Polls Likely Are Fake

[Doctor Jack]

Pharos polls have been making their rounds in the past month, including one that showed Romney was within 3 points of Obama in Pennsylvania . The problem with these polls seems to be very simple, they seem to be completely made up. They claim to be doing all live interviews of large numbers of people in impossibly short amounts of time, they seem to have no source of revenue and they claim to have been doing polls for a long time but no one can find any evidence that they existed before about 3 weeks ago.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/24/1149720/-What-s-the-deal-with-Pharos-Research-Group


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[justiceischeap]

1. Makes me wonder if this is the poll Romney thinks is putting him close in PA

I have to say, if it is all of his campaign staff should never find work again. It's almost treasonous to run a Presidential campaign this badly.

[KamaAina]

2. A whole bunch of new polls have come out of the woodwork this cycle

Gravis is another. It's easy enough to ignore them, as well as the usual right-biased suspects like Gallup and Rasmussen -- except that all the pundits throw them into their averages, skewing the results rightward, and giving the M$M a chance to report endlessly on the close* race,