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Better firm

cornbread — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:53:48 -0500

Cherie Berry and Steve Troxler should be the ones starting a new GOP consulting firm. They're the only successful Republicans in this state.

Re: New GOP consulting firm starting up

rgc_cary — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:42:56 -0500

What happens to Cansler Fuquay Solutions now that Lanier Cansler has left to become the Secretary at DHHS?

Re: New GOP consulting firm starting up

Gosh — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:08:13 -0500

Republicans in West Palm Beach, Raleigh and DC are thrilled.

Both of them.

They'll do fine.

Anglico — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:23:12 -0500

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."

Re: Bipartisan polling firm started

falconf16 — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:25:55 -0500

I know why there are 31% undecided it is not they are undecided it is that they didn't get to vote in the poll for their candidate. I have decided that I will take the 31% undecided thereby putting myslef right at the top.

Sounds like a great idea to me.

Colonel Dennis Nielsen
www.votenielsen.com

What About Bob?

bnartist — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:20:38 -0400

Bob Crumley and Bob Orr won't be happy their favorables are so low in the poll's Republican primary results but at least they can be consoled by the 110% response rate while other candidates only managed 100%.

Robert Orr 08% +30% +02% +05% +65% = 110%
Bob Crumley 08% +20% +02% +04% +76% = 110%

Re: Questioning the polling questions

jfg5025 — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:09:50 -0400

I think Brad's explanation is legitimate. But I also wouldn't be too bothered by the results because in the question directly preceding it, 12d, the public says they are in favor of new taxes for road maintenance and construction.

I'm not surprised by that at all. In all the polling we've done at Public Policy Polling I can tell you that people don't like taxes. And they won't support new taxes in a poll question-- unless you give them context for the taxes. They are willing to support higher taxes and fees if they pay for schools, roads, health care, etc.

Justin

Re: Bipartisan polling firm started

Betterway — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:52:07 -0400

I love both of these guys, but please pardon me if I call it the bi-partisan developers poll. Chris is firmly in thier pocket, (see triangle community coalition) and my boy Brad just made a killin' off running a bunch of commercials for the realtors to kill the transfer tax.

That said, both are solid professionals, (more than myself) and I wish them the best of luck. Just take any growth questions with a grain of salt. :-)

PKW

Re: Bipartisan polling firm started

gercohen — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:29:54 -0400

question 11 states:
"11. What would you consider the most important issue that the Legislature should address in the 2008 elections?"

do they mean the 2008 session?

Re: Bipartisan polling firm started

bnartist — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:02:34 -0400

Bipartisan maybe, biased maybe. Both firm are consultants to the NC Realtors.

There is a math error in the Bob Crumley results.

11 seems to be a long list. There is no indication these were rotated to eliminate bias from the last two loaded statements.

12a-g appear loaded in favor of their clients, NCAR, including the "my family has hit the limit" phrase from the earlier realtors' poll.

In particular 12a and 12c have three statements for only one response.