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January 18, 2006

Attention AJC

Your recent Zogby poll is crap. An outlier or something like that. It claimed that President Bush's approval rating in Georgia was 60%, that Sonny Perdue's rating was 70%, and that Sonny was besting all challengers by around 20 percentage points.

Well now Survey USA has released yet another Georgia poll which shows that Bush's approval in the state is still stalled below 50%. Since May, it has only been above 50% on SUSA's poll one time. That's over 5,000 interviews and an average approval for Bush of about 48%. Simply put, there is no way his approval is 60% in Georgia right now.

Maybe the AJC should take that into consideration and stop using their poll that shows Perdue cruising to victory as a justification to kiss his butt during the legislative session, so as not to get on the bad side of the "sure thing" come November.

I know Perdue, Taylor, Cox, Reed, Cagle, Hecht, Martin et all are doing polling, and that none of them will release their polls because the information is very confidential. But I also know that none of those polls, paid for with big bucks (not cheap Zogby polls) are showing anything as rosy as the AJC's poll did.

The AJC had a choice: they could spike their poll because they know it's a piece of crap (a professional pollster would do this on his own and conduct another one) or they could report it because after all, they did commission it and they aren't in the business of deciding when to report a poll or not. I think they did the right thing by reporting it, even if the reporters and editors might suspect it's a bogus sample. That said, report it all you want, but please don't let it color your editorial judgement.

Posted by Chris at January 18, 2006 01:17 AM

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