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TPM – Talking Points Memo

Are Right-Wing Pollsters Flooding the Zone?

TPM – Talking Points Memo
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66% Informative

There are a series of Republican or right-wing pollsters who are overtly partisan, use questionable or floating methodologies.

The worst offenders are places like Rasmussen , Trafalgar , InsiderAdvantage . After those, there’s a larger penumbra of often less-known pollsters.

Pollsters who zone flood in this way appear to be separate organizations and there are a fair amount of them.

So what exactly is the goal, the advantage of a place like Trafalgar doing this? Where’s the money come from? And how do they make money? One potential answer is that an ecosystem of right-wing payola is funding it.

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informal

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English

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36

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detected

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short-lived

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