Straight Answers

by digby

A few weeks ago MYDD put out a call for contributions to finance a poll. There was tremendous frustration at the time, if you’ll recall, at the reticence of the major pollsters to ask questions that were deemed politically incorrect or beyond conventional wisdom. And considering that the major media’s long standing habit of assuming the GOP dominant narrative, they wanted to verify their numbers.

That’s why Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller over at MYDD went out of their way to engage a credible pollster with impeccable credentials and pledged to let the chips fall where they may. We want real information guiding strategy, not push polls or partisan slant. This is for real. Today, the first results are in.

These first numbers are not surprising. They track with what we’ve seen in all the other major polls. But over the next few days, the rest of the poll will be rolled out and we will probably see some questions asked and answered that we haven’t seen before. And perhaps we will gain some understanding of where the electorate stands on so many of the issues we discuss here in the blogosphere every day.

As Lil’ Debbie Howell would say: Stay Tuned.

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