GOP chairman urges Star Tribune to fire poll director

[dmr]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4974443.html

GOP chairman urges Star Tribune to fire poll director

Mark Brunswick and Patricia Lopez, Star Tribune
September 11, 2004 POLL0911

The chairman of the state's Republican Party called on the Star Tribune on Friday to dismiss the long-time director of its Minnesota Poll, claiming that the poll results are consistently inaccurate in a way that favors the Democratic Party.

"When a newspaper conducts a poll on a political race and then prints an article on that poll, it is doing more than reporting news; it is creating news," said Ron Eibensteiner, in a letter to Star Tribune Publisher and President J. Keith Moyer.

Star Tribune Editor Anders Gyllenhaal defended the poll in a prepared statement. "We have been operating one of the most respected and accurate polls in the country for more than half a century and always have been completely open and forthcoming about how we conduct our polls," Gyllenhaal said. He called Eibensteiner's personal attack on poll director Rob Daves "shameful and misdirected."

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[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Workin' the refs, again... n/t

[Noxmtbnk]

2. Of course....

Push polling in their favor, they don't mind at all. Hell, they even fund it!

[edbermac]

3. Hey Ron Eibensteiner, ever hear of FOX News? Go write THEM a letter!

What a pathetic neocon ass-licker...:mad:

[qb]

4. Strib's polls aren't slanted towards Bush like the rest of 'em...

we'll have to do something about that. Eibensteiner is just a cog in the Repuke slime machine.

[tanyev]

5. Egad!

If you don't like the message, apparently you should kill the messenger.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

6. So then the Minnesota Republican Party is a branch of the Nazi Party then!