Republican Polling Co. Mgr. Pleads Guilty to "making up poll results" 9/06

[elehhhhna]

"An employee of a company that conducted campaign polls for President Bush, Sen. Joe Lieberman and other political candidates pleaded guilty Tuesday to making up poll results, according to the U.S. Attorney's office," says the Boston Globe. "Darryl Hylton, 42, of Hamden pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud ... He that he directed other DataUSA employees to falsify results in a variety of ways, including changing demographic information, such as gender, to satisfy client requirements." Interesting, that bit about satisfying client requests.


http://post-gazette.com/earlyreturns/

[bryant69]

1. Interesting

Could play out a couple of ways - in particular it could feed into "preliminary polls don't mean anything - it's not surprising that a guy who was 20 points down somehow won this election, because those polls are useless."

Bryant
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[Botany]

2. Can't steal em unless the polls are close.

to satisfy client requirements = Rove needs it to be close

[Karenina]

3. ALL polls are suspect.

Electronic ones are masturbation, Gallup, Zogby, Rasmussen... who is greasing their palms to "keep it close?" If it's close it can be stolen. The ENTIRE SYSTEM is FUBAR.