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5. Mark Penn is listed as "supervisor" of the Harris Poll.
Sun Aug 27, 2017, 01:29 PM
Aug 2017

He has a gig teaching polling at Harvard, and has teamed up with a professor who is part of the Center for American Progress.

The Hill claims to have an exclusive for reporting on some of the Harris polls.

The Harris Poll donates its results to the Center For American Progress. As far as I can figure our this is the only reason it is being referred to as the Harvard-Harris poll.

The Harris Poll has a website and seems to be a tacky online marketing survey company that offers its "member" pollees money, gift cards, rewards, and sweepstakes entries for filling out questionnaires online.

They do claim to use proper polling techniques but the site seems so seedy.

In any car, using this poll to claim that Sanders is the most popular politician in America seems be misleading---but this the era of fake news.

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