Two Raleigh firms are teaming up to start a monthly poll.
Campaign Connections, a Democratic consulting firm run by Brad Crone, and Public Solutions, a Republican firm run by Chris Sinclair, have started the North Carolina Poll.
The monthly poll will be available to subscribers, who will also be able to submit questions for the survey. It will be a "live operator" poll, with no automated computers.
In the first poll, a survey of 810 likely primary voters, Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue got 35 percent among Democratic voters for governor, beating Richard Moore, who got 29 percent.
Undecided voters, who made up about 30 percent, were mainly white urban women age 25-50 with children and high income and education levels as well as African-American voters.
Among Republicans running for governor, gas tax activist Bill Graham was first with 22 percent, followed closely by state Sen. Fred Smith at 21 percent, and former Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr at 16 percent.
Undecided voters, who made up about 37 percent, were mainly white urban men and women who consider themselves moderate to conservative with high income and education levels.
The margin of error was 4.5 percentage points.
Document(s):
ncpoll-aug07.pdf
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They'll do fine.
Campaigns and the corporate media don't care about finding truth in political polling, they're looking for advantage. These guys will drum up lots of business and plenty of media coverage.
If they were serious about honest research, however, they would have defined their business as "non-partisan," not "bi-partisan."