Public Opinion Strategies: Colbert ahead of Richardson, Kucinich, & Gravel

[Mr. Morden]

Was this poll even meant to be serious?  I don't know:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/10/the_colbert_effect.html

national primary poll:

Clinton 40
Obama 19
Edwards 12
Biden 2.7
Colbert 2.3
Richardson 2.1
Kucinich 2.1
Gravel <1
Dodd

Giuliani 29
Romney 12
Thompson 11
McCain 10
Doesn't say how the rest of the field finished, except that Colbert was included in the GOP field as well as the Dem field, but got less than 1% in the GOP field and finished behind even folks like Paul and Tancredo.

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[Mr. Morden]

I think this is only the 3rd national poll ever to have Romney in second place.  But given the way these trendlines are going:



we might start seeing a lot more of them soon.  Oh, and this is the lowest number for Thompson in any national poll since June.

[Eraserhead]

Crap. I just posted this.

[Sam Spade]

It is very rare to see POS do a public non-partisan poll, especially nowadays.  Normally, we only see POS when they publicly release "overly" favorable "internal" polling for Republican candidates.

Anyway, I would not take their results lightly (although they asked about Colbert).  POS is  one of the top polling firms nationwide both among firms with obvious partisan leanings or of non-partisan polling firms in general. 

As Vorlon told us, POS did the polling for the Bush campaign in Ohio and a number of other swing states in 2004 - that is - the polling that consists real "internal" polls which no one ever sees and are normally dead-on-the-money because of the amount of voters they sample.