Posted on 09/02/2011 9:18:19 AM PDT by Al B.
Fox News released its first poll Thursday since Rick Perry's entry into the presidential race, showing the Texas governor drawing 26 percent of the GOP primary vote and leading Mitt Romney by 8 points.
What caught one reader's attention, though, wasn't the size of Perry's lead, but the name of Fox's Republican pollster: Shaw & Company Research, a Texas-based firm that conducts the Fox survey in cooperation with the Democratic pollster Anderson Robbins Research. Continue Reading
The Shaw in Shaw & Company is Daron Shaw, a University of Texas political science professor and veteran of several GOP campaigns, whose name has been in the news a bit lately.
That's because Shaw is one of the starring players in Sasha Issenberg's e-book, "Rick Perry and His Eggheads: Inside the Brainiest Political Operation in America," which details a groundbreaking set of experiments that Shaw and three other academics conducted inside Perry's 2006 reelection campaign.
The Perry campaign allowed the so-called eggheads to run tests on "anything [they] could figure out how to randomize, from lawn signs to television ads," Issenberg writes, and they assembled a provocative set of findings on which kinds of campaign tactics really work.
Fast forward five years and Perry is running for president and Shaw is one of the lead pollsters for the most influential cable network, by far, among GOP primary voters.
Shaw told me this morning that there's no conflict of interest involved, since he wasn't paid by Perry for the campaign experiments and "because we're stupid, we never entered into any business relationship with Perry."
Nor, he said, was his role to advise Perry's reelection bid on strategy: "We'd just present the results and then the Perry people would do want they want."
Shaw was an analyst on the 1992 George H. W. Bush reelection campaign and the 2000 George W. Bush campaign. He and his Democratic counterpart, Chris Anderson, took over the Fox News poll earlier this year, but Shaw has been on the decision desk for the network going back to the 2002 cycle.
Though he has worked in political consulting, Shaw said he doesn't take federal or gubernatorial clients so as to avoid "even the appearance of a conflict of interest."
Try real hard to pay attention, will ya? She is not a declared candidate, but even in this idiot poll she came in third, BESTING ALL THE DECLARED CANDIDATES, EXCEPT THE TWO FRONT RUNNERS.
This poll asked the PALIN QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER SHE SHOULD RUN?
(Rick Perry doesn’t want her to run).
saw it.....and TGO too...wouldn’t miss TGO tonight for anything
Not campaigning???? She's done NOTHING but campaign since 2008. She quit her day job to campaign! 25% is her ceiling. That's it. As you well know there are several polls out there that show that 65% of the voters have made their miund up to vote for anyone but Palin. She can't win!
Daron Shaw
The Fox “Culture Warriors” said on national TV that they support Gay Marriage, they are on record being supportive of pro-choice.
The only consistently conservative voice for social conservatives is now Sean Hannity.
RedEye at 3 am in the morning is 100% supportive of the gay lifestyle.
Still, Fox is the only place to sometimes get conservative news. FoxBusiness might be better, but it’s not part of my satellite package.
Texans love Texas above all else; so Perry has Texans from all over shouting support in an electoral campaign version of the Diamond Strategy.
Cheers!
I’ll have to give considerable thought to that should Palin not run, but I fully expect her to run and to GO TEA PARTY ROGUE.
Actually, all the polls I have seen show that if Palin entered she hurts Romney, Bachmann and all the also rans, with no affect what so ever on Perry. So, Palin entry would help Perry.
Palin has stated that she has never won a poll. Ever. But won elections. Polls are useless. Elections get one in office. But if you want to buy what the MSM is selling, you can.
The Fox “Culture Warriors” said on national TV that they support Gay Marriage, they are on record being supportive of pro-choice.
The only consistently conservative voice for social conservatives is now Sean Hannity.
RedEye at 3 am in the morning is 100% supportive of the gay lifestyle.
Still, Fox is the only place to sometimes get conservative news. FoxBusiness might be better, but it’s not part of my satellite package.
No, it is not. A lead is a lead. 26% ALWAYS means 74% voted against you.
Didn't you see the polls this morning all over Fox News? They said "74% of GOP DO NOT WANT PALIN TO RUN"
... or, in other words, she is tied with Perry.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Gretchen Carlson supports homosexual marriage?
Hoover is an idiot, so I know she supports it.
Fox Business News is about all I watch. It’s somewhat better, but I watch it in the daytime to monitor the markets. I detest the Judge. (Napolitano).
If polls are so useless then why do candidates spend millions on them?
If Obama had legs like that I’d vote for him this time...
LOL. Well, thankfully then, he doesn’t!
Straight out of the mouth of the left. I find it amazing that FReepers use their memes.
So that is the latest excuse for denying the latest data?
What is the excuse for denying the reality of the reaction of this Republican crowd in Ames, Iowa, on Sean Hannity's show?
Running away from reality and denying reality will not defeat Obama. Facing reality will.
When I saw this poll reported on Fox News they showed Hannity asking that pollster he always has on to ask about Palin and all said NO! to Palin. Even if Hannity worded the Palin polling question incorrectly...They also said that every national poll has Palin as unfavorable as being accepted well as a POTUS candidate.
Are ALL OF the polls lying?
This is a politico news story bashing Perry as he is Obama’s only current competition so of course Politico is wanting to discredit Obama losing big time to Perry and it is posted on here as a CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS anti Fox News because Palin is not favored?
So now it is Fox News’ fault that Palin is not announcing?So Fox news has it in for Palin? How ridiculous.Who else can the Palinista’s blame because Palin is not announcing? They hate Bush,the tea party,A man name Crow running a tea party because he is not declaring Palin the POTUS and may want Perry to speak.So now it is Fox News they hate? I suppose Politico is there new savior? The other day the MSM were ‘tricking’ and twisting Palin stories but now Politico is the cat’s meow.The insanity is way out of hand.
What candidate paid for this one?
I sent money to Palin, you know I have nothing against her. I just had to pick another candidate until she announced her intentions.
Right now the best, most electable candidate is Perry. In the same way as the LongKnives have viciously attacked Palin, they have come after Perry.
Read this post, #56: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2771986/posts?page=56#56
You have been a FRiend for too long. I’ll not have you as an adversary.
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