Reply #2: Outstanding stats. Better than that crap we've seen from the right-wing "polls" for certain. [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Will never forget the poll fed bogus info. by US-financed Sumate, headed by Maria Corina Machado.

http://www.viomundo.com.br.nyud.net:8090/img/Maria_Corina_Machado__Sumate__meets_George_W._Bush__2002_.jpg

Maria Corina Machado does Washington.

Or what about the poll from Penn and Schoen?

Penn & Schoen's Inaccurate and Dishonest "Exit Poll" on Chávez Vote
Maneuver by U.S. Political Consultants Violated Venezuelan Law and Professional Ethics Codes

CARACAS, VENEZUELA AND SOMEWHERE IN AMÉRICA: The United States-based, British-owned, political consulting firm bearing the names of pollsters Mark Penn, Doug Schoen, and Michael Berland, committed a crime under Venezuelan election law on Sunday: It violated the law against releasing “exit poll” data before polls had closed.

In the firm’s own press release, Penn, Schoen & Berland admitted that they knew they were releasing the supposed “exit poll” information while voting was still underway:


“New York, August 15, 2004, 7:30pm EST – With Venezuela’s voting set to end at 8:00pm EST according to election officials, final exit poll results from Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, an independent New York-based polling firm, show a major victory for the ‘Yes’ movement, defeating Chavez in the Venezuelan presidential recall referendum.”

The careless and malicious approach that Penn, Schoen & Berland displayed with the Venezuela referendum on the continued tenure of President Hugo Chávez can be seen by the hour when the firm put out its press release: Voting in Venezuela had already been extended another two-and-a-half hours, until 10 p.m. (it would later be extended past midnight) so that all the millions of Venezuelan citizens still waiting on line to vote would be able to cast their ballots.

Thus, the gringo-British polling firm played fast and loose with the facts, and the law, in ways that it would never have been able to get away with in the United States on an election day. Justice demands that it not get away with this unethical behavior in Latin America either. To wit: If the pollsters and Penn, Schoen & Berland knew that polling hours had already been extended when they released their poll, then the pollsters clearly intended to deceive. But if the pollsters did not know what had already been announced in the news media in Venezuela, that would indicate a level of reckless disregard for the truth and incompetence as pollsters, as well as laziness at the hour the pollsters were supposedly tracking the vote, that will seriously stain the firm’s ability to meddle credibly in Latin American elections – or any elections anywhere – ever again.

More:
http://www.narconews.com/Issue34/article1046.html

Who would have guessed Mark Penn would become Hillary Clinton's own advisor/pr guy, and also one of 5 Washington, D.C. firms working for Alvaro Uribe as he tried to blitz the US Congress a couple of years ago?

Datanalysis' Jose Antonio Gil Yepes, who claimed Chavez had to be killed?

Alfredo Keller?

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Alfredo Keller's "Fight to the Death"

As with Gil Yepes, there is good reason to believe that the pollster Alfredo Keller has come to advocate a violent solution to Venezuela's current political conflict. In Keller's recent letter published by PetroleumWorld.com, he describes the current political standoff as "a fight to the death for power between two counter-posed ideological forces: an authoritarian socialism with a spirit of revenge against a democracy that is open to the market."

The charge of authoritarianism against Chavez is weak, and is especially hypocritical coming from the likes of Keller.

More:
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticlePrint/11034