Ronald Kessler’s Oct. 11 Newsmax column repeats unsubstantiated claims by pollster Gabriel Joseph of ccAdvertising that “pollsters find respondents are reluctant to identify themselves as Democrats” and that any poll sampling registered voters instead of likely voters is “biased” because it oversamples Democrats.
What Kessler doesn’t tell you — which he didn’t the last time he featured Joseph in his column — is that Joseph is a Republican pollster who’s notorious for push-polling, which makes his complaints about the veracity of others’ polls seem more than a tad disingenuous in comparison. Instead, Kessler benignly describes Joseph as running a company that “conducts polls for a range of candidates, interest groups, and members of Congress.”
Kessler had been doing so well last week by properly identifying Brad Blakeman as a conservative whose attacks on Democrats should be dismissed as partisan hackery.