Letters to the Editor

• We're Going to Surprise You..

  [Read the article: Clinton lead narrowing in New Hampshire?]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  I am one of those NH independents who ditched Bill Bradley in order to help John McCain give W a 19-point thumping in the 2000 primary. The pollsters never saw it coming.

  Six years later, NH’s First District voters consciously defied Washington’s Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and elected neophyte Carol Shea-Porter to Congress. The pollsters didn’t anticipate that one either.

  But how could they? Partisan pollsters typically pretend to be neutral, while hiding the fact that they’re bankrolled by big-money clients. Much of the NH electorate has come to distrust pollsters of every stripe. Many of us respond to a relentless slew of polling inquiries by providing misleading answers, or none at all.

  Your poll numbers are unreliable. Hanging out on NH’s Main Streets would give you a much better idea of who’s going to take NH on January 8.

  It will be Obama and Romney, by the way.

  Permalink Saturday, December 1, 2007 07:48 PM