About Wentzel Strategies, the polling firm from Columbus, Ohio, and about the Family Research Council, the group commissioning the poll. FRC is a long-time conservative advocate part of whose mission is social research. IOW, they are able to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate polling firms.
- Wenzel Strategies: Right Yet Again! Aug 01, 2012 11:43:58 AM Wenzel Strategies congratulates newly minted Texas Republican Senate nominee Ted Cruz for his runaway win in Tuesday’s election to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison. His margin of victory over David Dewhurst was an impressive 57% to 43% margin, which was almost identical to the outcome of the trendsetting Wenzel Strategies poll of the race. The survey, [...]
- POLITICO-July 12, 2012: The Republican pollster who signaled Dick Lugar’s demise and Deb Fischer’s late surge is now flagging an upset in the making in the Texas Senate Race. TEA Party favorite Ted Cruz is leading Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, 47 percent to 38 percent in the GOP runoff, according to Columbus, Ohio-based Wenzel Strategies.
- "When we contacted Wenzel Strategies, we had a pretty clear idea of the types of things we needed to know from a public opinion survey. Fritz Wenzel came out and met with us and helped us craft a survey instrument that met our needs very well. We were interested in doing a poll of Licking County, Ohio residents who commuted to jobs out of the county. Industry site selectors and expanding businesses want to know where they are going to find a workforce, and though we saw commuters as a talent pool, we didn't know much more about our commuters than how many there were.
Among other things, we wanted to know the skills of the commuters and an understanding of the mindset of a commuter to help us determine how best to convince them to find work here in their home county when opportunities were there. Wenzel Strategies gathered and analyzed the data in a professional and expert fashion that has helped to put us on the road to building strategies to make our county's economy and its communities stronger. I strongly recommend Wenzel Strategies for any small government or non-profit organization that has a project like ours and is trying to determine what its residents or clients are thinking. This has been a great experience for us."
- Rick Platt, President and CEO of Heath-Newark-Licking County Port Authority
So, to the extent that you can take any poll to the bank, this poll is conducted by a reputable firm.
If it happens for Akin, I will be very happy to be proven wrong. McCasKILL needs to be sent home.