Politics Re: Rumors of a Poll in the 43rd District
Local politics addicts (all seven of them) have been wondering two things about the rumors of a poll in the 43rd District. The poll allegedly showed Jim Street winning by a hair — or perhaps, in his case, an old school Seattle beard whisker — and was slipped to Dave Meinert. Here, again, are the alleged results:
Street 15.8%Pedersen 15%
Kelley 7%
Sherman 5%
Dodson 4%
Pure 3%
(No word on margin of error, methodology, or when it was supposedly conducted. And note that 50 percent of respondents in the poll were apparently undecided.)
The first question people are asking: Is the poll for real? And question number two: Who conducted it?
I can’t definitively answer either question yet, but I’ve played a little process-of-elimination game and I can tell you who claims not to have conducted the poll and, perhaps more tellingly, who did not respond to my query.
The campaigns of Sherman, Dodson, Street, Kelley, and Pure all denied conducting the poll. Pedersen, however, has not replied to my question asking whether his campaign conducted the poll.
Which raises two more interesting questions: Did Pedersen run a poll in recent weeks only to find himself in second place? And if so, what did he do to change that situation?
UPDATE: Just heard from Pedersen, who says his campaign hasn’t done any polling. So that means either Meinert is peddling misinformation or one of these six candidates is — gasp! — not telling the truth.
this is sensationalizing something that could end up being complete BS. not knowing when/how/where/who regarding this poll makes it completely without merit.
sounds like an 'october surprise' type rumor designed to get-out-those-last-few-votes by the pedersen camp.
weasel.