Reply #4: And not James Carville either - he's been advising the oligarchs!

[Minstrel Boy]

As the Washington Post's Scott Wilson reported, prominent members of the Venezuelan opposition traveled to Washington in January 2003 and began consulting informally with Democratic Party whore-of-convenience James Carville. Soon thereafter, the Democratic Party polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (GQR) - the company of Carville's fellow whore and Clintonite pollster Stanley Greenberg - popped up in Venezuela working on behalf of the opposition.

In a bracing demonstration of U.S. bipartisanship at the service of Uncle Sam's reactionary foreign policy, GQR joined forces with the Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies to carry out "polls" on behalf of the opposition. In March 2003, GQR released a misleading statement that its findings contrasted with "the assumption of many analysts that Venezuela is divided between the upper- and middle-class opponents of Chavez and his lower-class supporters."

The strategy was clear; in order to beat Chavez, GQR - like Datanalisis - sought to deny the government of its base.

The only problem was that GQR's denial of a class divide and Datanalisis' claim that the poor were now even more disapproving of Chavez than middle and wealthier strata were strongly contradicted by the actual results of the GQR-POS "poll". The "poll"showed that the poor (stratum E) and the relatively poor (stratum D) - which together represent about 80 percent of Venezuela's adult population - were more than twice as likely to continue supporting Chavez than the middle to wealthier strata.

http://www.counterpunch.org/delacour08072004.html