Internal MD: Voter Consumer Research: Cardin(D) has a 2 pt lead on Steele(R)

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

New Poll: Maryland Senator by Voter consumer research on 2006-10-23

Summary: D: 41%, R: 39%, U: 20%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

[Sam Spade]

This is not a link to a poll.

[Mike in Maryland]

I think Consumer Logic does mostly paid Republican polling, so I'm skeptical of this.  And 20% undecided at this point doesn't sound right.

[Sam Spade]

I think Consumer Logic does mostly paid Republican polling, so I'm skeptical of this.  And 20% undecided at this point doesn't sound right.

I agree with this.  I'm trying to get our poll poster to actually post numbers, though. 

[okstate]

This poll isn't even by Consumer Logic.

It's by Voter Consumer Research, which is indeed a GOP firm.

Consumer Logic, though, is a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company that does polling for the Tulsa World and KOTV, the CBS affiliate in Tulsa.

Not to mention the fact that there's not even a link to an actual poll in this thread. Please don't post polls on the Atlas until they are CONFIRMED.

[Mike in Maryland]

I knew it was some "Consumer" firm affiliated with the GOP.  They did a poll on the same race a month ago.  Compared to that, the results aren't much changed; Cardin dropped by 3 points (within MOE) while Steele stayed flat.

Obviously they didn't push leaners too hard, but I wonder if there was some other slight "pushing" as sometimes seems to happen with partisan surveys. 

[Moooooo]

Ehrlich has been caught push-poll according to the Sun.  I wouldnt be suprised if Steele, Cardin, and O'Malley have done the same.  The difference is Cardin and O'Malley do not feel the need to leak their internals.

This is just something for Steele to send to his supporters and show to donors down the stretch.

The WaPo poll was in the field this week, we should know the results sometime by weekend.

[Gabu]

Obviously they didn't push leaners too hard

Actually, I think they pushed leaners very hard.

With 20% undecided they must have been going "ARE YOU SURE YOU SUPPORT CARDIN?  REALLY?  YOU'RE NOT UNDECIDED?  MAYBE YOU'RE UNDECIDED, DO YOU THINK YOU'RE UNDECIDED?  I THINK YOU MIGHT BE"

[Mike in Maryland]

I'm somewhat dissatisfied by the quality of polling in this race lately.  I went to Pollster.com and the most recent polls I found were:

This and Public Opinion Strategies (both GOP-affiliated)
Online Zogby Interactive
A Survey USA poll with somewhat dubious samples
A Gallup Poll which seemed like an outlier
Rasmussen, with which I've had some issues but seems to be the best of the bunch of what we've got here.

Polling in the Governor's race hasn't been any better.  When you're scrounging for rumors of what the campaigns' internals say, you know that you're not being well served.

[Deano963]

The reason the undecideds in this poll done for the NRSC are so high is because they did not push leaners. The DSCC's poll which also came out today did push leaners, and in that poll Cardin lead by 12.