Posted on 07/16/2007 1:20:50 PM PDT by HAL9000
Hillary Clinton fund-raiser Vinod Gupta's "decision to pay a substantial premium last December to acquire the Opinion Research Corporation, which has done opinion surveys for CNN since April 2006," has raised conflict of interest questions, today's New York Times reports."In January, CNN began using Opinion Research for its presidential polling, leading conservative bloggers to ask if Mr. Gupta, as a Clinton supporter, should have influence over CNN's polling."
But: "Mr. Gupta called Opinion Research 'a natural fit' for his business, adding that he had no involvement with its polling operations. A review of its poll results over the last six months found them mostly in line with other campaign surveys..."
(Excerpt) Read more at mediabistro.com ...
And the next pro-conservative poll result cited by William Schneider will be the first.
well atleasat they can’t yell.......... H A L L I B U R T ON
Sounds like a fancy way of saying "completely unnecessary".
Just like, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinski”?
Yes, and you never inhaled either.
Surprised the Slimes would even comment because it was raised as an issue a couple of months ago when he (Gupta) was going to do a fund raiser in NY for her. Whether the organization is actually able to work at arms length, none of us will ever really know, but it doesn’t pass the smell test - the appearance of a conflict. The Clintons have never cared about what looks bad, because they don’t have to. The media has, for the most part, simply taken them at their word, which is worthless.
No stoned unturned, right Hillary?
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