It’s embarrassing that The Hill commissioned a poll from Mark Penn and Doug Schoen. Guess what it purports to show?
Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP.
This result comes from The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll, which found that 44 percent of likely voters say the Democratic Party is more dominated by its extreme elements, whereas 37 percent say it’s the Republican Party that is more dominated by extremists.
In case anyone’s interested, Schoen and Penn make their living off of corporate clients, and they do everything they can to make the Democratic Party sympathetic to those client’s interests. All this poll represents is an effort to blame the midterm losses on the Democrats going too far to the left. No one in their right mind is going to believe these poll results. But you can believe this:
Penn Schoen Berland is best known for applying the approaches and research methodologies learned in the political world to the corporate setting – an approach that built PSB’s reputation as one of the world’s premier global market research and communications consulting firms.
We help our clients win in competitive situations and make strategic decisions based on qualitative and quantitative information. Our unique hybrid process neutralizes the issues that hurt our clients, finds issues on which our clients can build majorities, and amplifies the messages that work. We are experts at finding the right message for the right audience and delivering it through the right medium.
So, how could their poll reach any other conclusion than that the Democrats are too far to the left? They don’t get paid to do honest polls.
