Illegal In-Kind Campaigning? Poll Fraud

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MADDOG10 — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 23:02:38 GMT

Speaking of Cartoons LB, stick around if you can , I've got a truckload of them just for you...!

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MADDOG10 — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 23:00:53 GMT

I did man up, I stated Hillary is a ruthless , cutthroat , human waste POS. OK. Stupid Cartoons ,man you really are a special kind of stupid aren't you? NO facts aren't BS moron. Have you listened to the tapes of Hillary yet? No you haven't, it's like Em said, you have your hands over your ears and eye's. Have you considered going back to being a Hack? Or did that fizzle out just like the rest of your tirades..!

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emilyg — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:17:06 GMT

lakerben - you have your hands over your ears and eyes. Learn the truth.

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lakerben — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:58:23 GMT

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MADDOG10 — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:29:22 GMT

How many coffins have they wheeled in to register LB? The people of NM are not that Stupid , but if it makes you feel better to spread your BS, by all means go ahead, you're the only one ,making a fool of Yourself. By the way, your first statement, did you forget all about your DRAG QUEEN and what she's said? Convenient Huh

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lakerben — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 04:33:59 GMT

The democrats have turned out in record numbers to register here in NM. We are making a big push to keep trump out of the white house!

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rcbbuckeye — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 03:27:15 GMT

I don't know a single person voting for Hilly the crooked b*tch.

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lakerben — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 03:09:48 GMT

Why would anyone be surprised that he's losing? I don't know a single person that would vote for him after last week and all the other things he said!

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jarasan — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 02:41:35 GMT

Polls should be outlawed for elections, it benefits us all.

Original Blog Entry: Illegal In-Kind Campaigning? Poll Fraud

emilyg — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 01:14:13 GMT

Illegal In-Kind Campaigning? Poll Fraud

The Market Ticker - Commentary on The Capital Markets

2016-10-11 11:09 by Karl Denninger

in Corruption , 1464 references Ignore this thread

Illegal In-Kind Campaigning? Poll Fraud

OK folks.

You know about that nice NBC/WSJ poll that shows that Hillary is up 11, right?

Well, CTH deconstructed it. It wasn't very hard to do, and it showed the usual media bias in the sample, which is a problem standing alone. But then we get into why the bias existed, and it's not so simple as it first appears.

What CTH managed to find is that the organization that ran the poll is an organization run by a man who currently is a SuperPAC operator for PrioritiesUSA in support of Hillary Clinton, and was involved in a similar one for President Obama.

In other words the so-called media poll wasn't actually run by NBC and the WSJ, it was run by a SuperPAC dedicated to Hillary's election.

The reason for the intentional bias in the poll's sample is now obvious -- and ought to have been reason enough for both NBC and the Wall Street Journal to refuse to run it at all.

THAT is outrageous. But it gets better -- Hillary's campaign paid this organization over $200,000 in September alone!

Is that legal, given that SuperPACs are not supposed to coordinate with a campaign? Maybe. It depends on what was bought.

Is it legal for a SuperPAC to run a poll and bias it on purpose? Sure. Hell, SuperPACs (and campaigns) run biased messages all the time -- that's what political advertising is!

But SuperPACs, like all other independent groups and the campaigns themselves are required by law to disclose who is paying for the communication so that the people have some chance of discerning what is objective and what is obviously and intentionally biased for political purposes. That is why you hear I'm .... and I approve this message. Candidates and SuperPACs don't include that because they want to, they include it because it's illegal to put forward said communication without that notice.

A news organization that is patently used with their full knowledge and consent to present an electioneering message to the public that originates in this fashion without any disclosure whatsoever quite-arguably violates the law and in addition such advertising (which is exactly what it is when the content is not a poll but instead is an engineered communication from a SuperPAC) certainly appears to constitute an in-kind campaign contribution to the campaign that it promotes by the news organization in question.

Why do we put up with this crap again and where are the snip ed handcuffs?

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