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Published on June 30, 2010 By dan_l In Blogging

I know I do.

A bit over two weeks ago, a group of statistic wizards (Mark Grebner, Michael Weissman, and Jonathan Weissman) approached me with a disturbing premise -- they had been poring over the crosstabs of the weekly Research 2000 polling we had been running, and were concerned that the numbers weren't legit.

I immediately began cooperating with their investigation, which concluded late last week. Daily Kos furnished the researchers with all available and relevant information in our possession, and we made every attempt to obtain R2K's cooperation -- which, as I detail in my reaction post here -- was not forthcoming. The investigators' report is below, but its conclusion speaks volumes:

We do not know exactly how the weekly R2K results were created, but we are confident they could not accurately describe random polls.

The full report follows -- kos

It only took them through 1/3rd of the comments to blame Bush for it. Ahhhh the good ol days. This would be a much bigger deal if Netroots still represented the force that they were supposed to be back in the early 2000's. I'm not even totally convinced that they ever were the force that they purported to be back then. Still though, for a guy who considers himself a consultant, this really isn't good.


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on Jun 30, 2010

It only took them through 1/3rd of the comments to blame Bush for it.

If Bush did not exist, God would have to invent him just so the liberals would not explode.