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Health Care Compact Alliance not a sponsor of Tuesday’s email from pollster Rasmussen

By | 03.29.11 | 4:45 pm

On Monday, a group opposed to federal health care sponsored an email from Rasmussen Reports containing survey results showing that people oppose federal health care. On Tuesday, Rasmussen sent out another of its “Daily Updates” — this one containing neither polling data on federal health care, nor advertisements for More…

Discrediting of Research 2000 Polls Gives Chuck Grassley a Boost

By | 06.29.10 | 3:43 pm

A prominent polling firm’s work was placed under suspicion today — and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) may be the biggest beneficiary.

Daily Kos had contracted Research 2000 to conduct weekly polls for its website, but an outside review published by the site shows highly improbable results. Kos founder Markos More…

Poll: Many Republicans Believe Obama is Racist Socialist Who Was Elected by ACORN

By | 02.02.10 | 12:23 pm

Markos Moulitsas and Research 2000 have attempted to take it, and the results are up now. Among them:

- Only 24 percent of Republicans say that ACORN definitely did not “steal the 2008 election.” Twenty-one percent say the community group did; 55 percent are unsure.

- Thirty-one percent of More…

Impeach Obama!

By | 02.01.10 | 6:03 pm

Markos Moulitsas has started to leak the results of a comprehensive Research 2000 poll of Republicans, asking for their take on a series of hot-button issues. Thirty-nine percent of Republicans, for example, want Obama to be impeached. Thirty-one percent want a ban on contraception.

We haven’t seen the full More…

The First Republican Moneybomb?

By | 01.13.10 | 1:58 pm

In a post making the convincing case that the national interest in the race has hurt GOP candidate Scott Brown’s chance at an upset victory in the Massachusetts, Markos Moulitsas makes a point I hadn’t heard elsewhere.

[H]is moneybomb on Monday was the first real moneybomb conservative activists have

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‘How the Left Swiftboated America’

By | 12.11.09 | 12:47 pm

Before there was Glenn Beck, there was John Gibson, a dyspeptic Fox News host who anchored the network’s 5 p.m. block and steadily upped his outrage against liberals and Democrats. His shining moment at the network was probably the “war on Christmas” coverage of the late Bush era, culminating in More…

Poll: Democrat Leads, Conservative Trails, in NY-23

By | 10.23.09 | 8:15 am

The new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of the race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District has Democratic candidate Bill Owens in the lead, benefiting from the split between GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava and Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. The topline:

Bill Owens (D) – 35 percent
Dede Scozzafava More…

WaPo Peddles Administration’s Position on Patriot Act

By | 10.14.09 | 10:29 am

Jesselyn Radack at Daily Kos slams The Washington Post for its editorial yesterday praising the Senate Judiciary Committee for its highly compromised Patriot Act reform bill. “The Post turns a blind eye to the vast amount of civil liberties protections Senate Democrats and the Obama administration More…

Montana Republicans Love Max Baucus

By | 08.21.09 | 7:08 pm

Daily Kos and Research 2000 are out with an interesting poll of likely voters in Montana. Kos flags the approval numbers of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) — the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, from which just about everyone in Washington is eagerly awaiting More…

ACLU to Argue Against Use of Evidence Obtained Through Torture in Federal Court

By | 06.30.09 | 6:31 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union will file a brief tomorrow urging the federal court to suppress evidence gathered using torture, which the government wants to rely on in the case of Mohammed Jawad, the boy who “confessed” to throwing a grenade at U.S. soldiers after being arrested and tortured More…