It seems the Clinton campaign has been testing the waters for negative information about her main opponents. Ben Smith of The Politico has the story:
Dan Comly, a technical writer and Democratic activist, was at home in Portsmouth, N.H., on April 4 when he took a call for the most detailed political poll he had ever participated in.
"Wow, this is really cool (that) someone's taking the time to ask about these issues," he recalls thinking. "Then they started specifically comparing candidates," he says, asking whether his views would be altered by Barack Obama's relative lack of national experience, or by John Edwards' background as a wealthy trial lawyer.So after Comly got off the phone, he did what any 21st-century Democratic activist would do: He went to his favorite liberal blog, My Left Wing, and wrote about the questions, which "began to make me queasy. Someone was trying to bash John Edwards and Barack Obama, and pitch Hillary."
Read it all at the above link. This sort of thing goes on all the time, of course. Hillary's poll is remarkable only in the comprehensive extent of it, and that she was caught doing it. Note that neither Obama nor Edwards will say if they have polled similarly - which pretty much means they have, doesn't it? If they hadn't, and the frontrunner steps into a controversy, why wouldn't they say so, and appear as pure as the driven snow?
This embroglio also draws interest because her pollster, Mark Penn, held the same function under her husband's Administration, polling all sorts of details including, famously, where the First Couple should go on vacation.
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Comments (5)
"Note that neither Obama... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Lee Ward | June 28, 2007 4:46 PM | Score: -1 (3 votes cast)
"Note that neither Obama nor Edwards will say if they have polled similarly - which pretty much means they have, doesn't it? If they hadn't, and the frontrunner steps into a controversy, why wouldn't they say so, and appear as pure as the driven snow?"
Lol - Fred Thompson has not issue a single press release that proclaims he doesn't beat his wife - and that proves he does - doesn't it?
Come on Addison, you can do better than this.
1. Posted by Lee Ward | June 28, 2007 4:46 PM |
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Posted on June 28, 2007 16:46
2. Posted by Jim Addison | June 28, 2007 5:36 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Your analogy might be valid IF, say, Giuliani had just been accused of wife-beating. However, to make such a ridiculous comparison to Obama and Edwards both refusing to deny they are doing the same thing Hillary is, when doing so would gain them the "high ground," simply doesn't pass the laugh test.
It's like you are just a useless troll . . .
2. Posted by Jim Addison | June 28, 2007 5:36 PM |
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Posted on June 28, 2007 17:36
3. Posted by John in CA | June 28, 2007 7:31 PM | Score: -1 (3 votes cast)
In the same week her husband exclaims that "Hillary will not be 'Swiftboated'", his presidential candidate wife's campaign is caught preparing to Swiftboat her opponents.
Which is just evidence of the most poll driven President ever.
3. Posted by John in CA | June 28, 2007 7:31 PM |
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Posted on June 28, 2007 19:31
4. Posted by Lee Ward (aka 'the troll') | June 29, 2007 3:06 AM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
You attributing attributes to someone based on what they don't say -- in this case that they didn't say that they hadn't conducted negative polling, is absurd. They didn't deny it so they are guilty? Waht kind of tin-foil logic is that?
FIrst off, they have to be asked in order to deny it. Were they asked?
If they were asked, show us the quote.
If they weren't asked, they haven't had the opportunity to deny it. And you've decided that since they haven't denied it they're guilty.
Has Giuliani denied it? Show us the quote!
Has Fred Thompson denied it? Show us the quote!
They haven't denied it either? GUILTY!!!! lol
Obama and Edwards can't deny it unless they are asked. Show us where they were asked, and quit making up crap out of thin air.
Amazingly bad, Jim. You can do better.
4. Posted by Lee Ward (aka 'the troll') | June 29, 2007 3:06 AM |
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Posted on June 29, 2007 03:06
5. Posted by Jim Addison | June 29, 2007 4:51 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Lee, I have no doubt I can do better. Those who do their best ALL of the time are operating at a low-mediocre or worse.
The problem is that you cannot do better. And that's sad.
5. Posted by Jim Addison | June 29, 2007 4:51 AM |
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Posted on June 29, 2007 04:51