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August 27, 2005
Zogby Online Polling for Fred Thompson in '06 Gov Race
I just completed one of those polls that Marc Zogby sends to his e-mail list. I have read plenty of opinions that decry the accuracy of these particular surveys, but I occasionally complete them and am interested in the outcome anyway, however scientific (or not). Online polling beats phone calls hands-down, so anything I can do to help improve their accuracy, through increasing their usage and therefore the amount of scrutiny placed on them, I will do. (I just hate the ones that have all the non-political questions included.)
I did this one because it is specific to the mid-term elections. It was disappointing that the poll only covered statewide races, because I would be curious to see what names were in the Congressional set; but one thing jumped out at me for sure: in addition to the predictable match-up questions on the Senate race (pairing the 5 major declared candidates as well as Beth Harwell against each other in a few different primary and general combinations), there was one question pitting Phil Bredesen against Fred Thompson in the gubernatorial race.
No other name was included (hey, that's kinda unfair to our friends Hooker and Whitaker). No Beth Harwell, no Jim Henry, no Ron Ramsey; just Fred Thompson.
Does Zogby know something that I don't? Or did he fashion his poll questions based only on the latest rumor that any of us has? How active is the effort to recruit Thompson to run against Bredesen? Or, has his name been slipped in there in order to gauge what the support would look like, and thus help him decide?
If someone in the GOP (or anyone else) wants to let me know, I'll thank you greatly. I think a Thompson-Bredesen race would make the 2006 elections even more exciting than they already promise to be. Could I find myself supporting two conservative Republicans for statewide office??
Political News | By joe lance | 11:55 AM