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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (38713)	9/21/2000 6:27:46 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 769667

At this time four years ago the Newsweak poll had Clinton up by 29. They were only off by 21. CBS/NY Times was a little closer, they were somewhere in the low 20s. Not a single poll predicted the Republicans winning the House in 94.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (38713)	9/21/2000 7:12:05 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 769667

This is how Gore treats his dog, and will likely treat you. GORE’S BEST FRIEND? Inside the Beltway has learned that D.C. animal-control authorities recently received an emergency call from a guard posted at an entrance gate outside Vice President Al Gore’s mansion on Massachusetts Avenue. The officer, apparently with the uniformed division of the Secret Service, told the authorities that a sick dog had been lingering around the vice president’s property, and could they please send somebody out to pick up the pooch. The animal-control people arrived and quickly determined that the dog, a poodle, required immediate emergency veterinary care. According to our source, who works in veterinary medicine, the dog was suffering from "maggot infestation of the muscles, resulting from an open, untreated wound." The dog, it turned out, belongs to the family of Vice President Al Gore. The dog was transported to Friendship Animal Hospital in the District, a 24-hour facility that provides emergency care under director Dr. Peter Glassman. "No, I have no comment," Dr. Glassman said when we contacted him yesterday. Earlier, an employee in Dr. Glassman’s office said the staff was under "strict order" not to discuss the case. "I told my staff not to comment on anything that goes on here," Dr. Glassman said when we repeated the charge. A D.C. animal-control official also confirmed our story earlier this week but said that agency is also "under a gag order." The employee said any official comment would have to come from Mary Healey, executive director of the Washington Humane Society. Reached yesterday, Ms. Healey confirmed: "We had received a call to pick up a dog in the vicinity of the vice presidential property and we responded to the call. We located the dog; I believe it was a poodle...named Coconut. The dog was apparently injured in some way. "Our normal procedure . . . is to transport such an animal to Friendship Animal Hospital, and that was the end of the road for us." Ms. Healey said she didn’t believe Coconut carried a name tag, but she confirmed that authorities were able to determine at the scene that the dog did have an owner and was not a stray. Our initial source said the guard who reported the dog’s condition to authorities "claims not to have realized the dog belonged to the Gores, but the animal-control people think he was just trying to get the suffering animal some help without jeopardizing his job." Tipper Gore, speaking yesterday afternoon through spokeswoman Sally Aman, said: "What happened is we’ve been having construction on the house and Coconut got out, and was missing for a couple of days. It’s an amazing dog. She’s 16 years old. It had been outside the grounds and found its way home, and that’s when it was discovered." She said the dog, after its surgery, was nursed back to health by the Gore children. It could not be determined whether the Gores had reported the dog missing. freerepublic.com

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (38713)	9/21/2000 7:34:35 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

Well, I am not arguing methodology to any great extent, when neither of us is a pollster. I will observe that some of your concerns seem facetious. For example, even in a non- automated survey, it is easy for someone underage to misrepresent himself if he cares to. Similarly, since polls are conducted randomly, and by phone, no one checks courthouse records and so on, and yet probable voter surveys have been found to be more accurate across the board. Others seem to have been addressed, if not in detail, by the firm. They say that certain groups are over- represented, and they try to adjust for that, for example. The main thing would seem to be whatever can be indicated through past performance, since that is what all polls base their reputation on. As regards that: March 14, 2000 Rasmussen Research Named Most Accurate in Primary Polling TownPages Subsidiary Ranked First Followed by Gallup and Zogby TownPagesNet.com (AMEX: TPN - news), today announced that an independent analysis of pre-election polls and actual primary results found that its subsidiary Rasmussen Research most accurately predicted the outcomes of the Presidential Primary elections this year. Gallup and Zogby finished a close second and third. The Washington, DC-based Progressive Review, (http://www.prorev.com) which conducted the "Primary Pollster Run-Off", ranked Rasmussen Research number one in accuracy. Sam Smith, the magazine's publisher, commented, "the results suggest that, contrary to popular myth, polls do work, but that some work considerably better than others." Rasmussen Research President, Scott Rasmussen commented, "We're obviously pleased with this independent validation of our work. Primary elections are the most difficult of all to project, so our number one ranking through the primary season is particularly satisfying. The leader in every Rasmussen Research pre-election poll emerged victorious on election day." Rasmussen Research conducts independent public opinion research using a proprietary automated telephone survey system. Results of this research are distributed on-line and through traditional media outlets. The firm's Portrait of America web site is the Number One Source for Public Opinion Polling Data On the Internet.... portraitofamerica.com