Daily Dolt: Del Ali of Research 2000

Research 2000 does fine work, but this caught my attention as one of the most clueless statements about Illinois politics I’ve seen in some time:

The Research 2000 poll has historically ranked Blagojevich’s favorability higher than most others. Pollster Del Ali speculated that may be in part because his poll asks respondents to choose among several categories of negative and positive approval, which may prompt more nuance in the answers.

Ali also questioned the lowest rankings of some other polls. “I find it hard to believe a Democrat in a Democratic state would be less popular than (President) George Bush,” he said.

Let me point out we have had multiple polls putting Blagojevich at 15 % or less and every one of them that also measured Bush’s approval on the same scales found it higher.

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