Another poll from Strategic Vision came out today. 800 likely voters, +/- 3 percent.
Nothing has really changed. President Bush is still wildly unpopular. People disapprove of both the Legislature and the Governor. And Tommy Thompson still kills Mark Green (69-20 among Republicans) and Jim Doyle (58-30) in polling for the gubernatorial race.
It's not so much the polling results that interest me these days. It's that, well, it's hard to believe that Strategic Vision is doing charity work. That they're paying people to make thousands of phone calls to get answers to these questions out of personal or corporate curiosity. That they're running an "ask nine questions, get the tenth free" special.
Surely we can assume that Jim Doyle and Mark Green are not paying a polling firm to release numbers showing that both are losing badly to a former Governor of Wisconsin. Similarly, we can assume that the Republican Party of Wisconsin and Democratic Party of Wisconsin are not paying for this kind of bad publicity either.
So that leaves the unanswered question: if Strategic Vision isn't doing this as a freebie, who's paying them to ask questions that show how popular Tommy Thompson is?
Nothing has really changed. President Bush is still wildly unpopular. People disapprove of both the Legislature and the Governor. And Tommy Thompson still kills Mark Green (69-20 among Republicans) and Jim Doyle (58-30) in polling for the gubernatorial race.
It's not so much the polling results that interest me these days. It's that, well, it's hard to believe that Strategic Vision is doing charity work. That they're paying people to make thousands of phone calls to get answers to these questions out of personal or corporate curiosity. That they're running an "ask nine questions, get the tenth free" special.
Surely we can assume that Jim Doyle and Mark Green are not paying a polling firm to release numbers showing that both are losing badly to a former Governor of Wisconsin. Similarly, we can assume that the Republican Party of Wisconsin and Democratic Party of Wisconsin are not paying for this kind of bad publicity either.
So that leaves the unanswered question: if Strategic Vision isn't doing this as a freebie, who's paying them to ask questions that show how popular Tommy Thompson is?
2 comments:
Do we get three guesses?
I received an automated call/survey last week. (they don't employ people to make calls). I am fairly certain it was this poll. the opening message indicated that a local radio station was conductiong the poll. right. all of the questions corresponded to the survey results released by Strategic Vision. TGT paid for it, that's my vote.
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