UPDATE (by David): Nate Silver has important information on the outfit that did this poll that makes its result far less credible than others that have come out recently.
A new tele-poll last night has Scott Brown up by 15.4%.
There are some flaws to this poll for sure … no Joe Kennedy, some distortions in the R/D/I mix which is slightly tilted to R, and, it’s a robo-poll so take it with a grain of salt.
However, the poll is not that flawed that it can be discarded. It seems to verify, at the least, a steady shift to Brown.
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..according to what appeared to be a well informed source on Kos. I’ve been looking for confirmation, but what do you know they don’t have old poll information on their site as far as I can tell.
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p>Clear flaw.
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p>Matter of opinion.
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p>Not a flaw.
The pollster is in the tank. 538 has the details.
It is clear he called about the right mix of R’s, D’s, and I’s, and the questions don’t sound twisted.
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p>He’s totally fudging the numbers? What could he be doing to tilt the results?
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p>Honestly, I’m asking. I don’t know anything about polling.
“The poll was conducted by a firm connected with the Black Rock Group, which bills itself as a “strategic communications and public affairs firm” and whose chief spokesman/strategist, Carl Forti, just so happens to be the spokesman for this polling firm that nobody has ever heard of and just so happens (as David Dayen dutifully reports) to be the spokesman for a big pharma lobbying group that’s pushed the death panels meme and just so happens to be the lead PR flak for Pajamas Media.
Carl Forti was on the Romney Presidential communications team, and close associate of Mitt Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC. Hmmmm could this be part of the Ferhnstrom connection?