Rich Miller reports that the Hynes Campaign has internals showing a three way dead heat. Take it for what you will–internals are always suspect, but it is believable given the movement of the last few days.
More importantly, is Hynes is showing good judgment again in state finances.
From Miller’s synopsis of the situation
THE NEW WAY The Sun-Times broke an excellent story yesterday about how the governor is about to award a multi-million dollar contract to Accenture, which is headquartered in Bermuda. During his budget address, Blagojevich attacked companies that avoided taxes by incorporating offshore.
Comptroller Dan Hynes has been pushing a bill to stop the state from awarding contracts to offshore-based corporations, but the governor’s CMS director, who once worked for Accenture, tried to alter the bill to give the governor discretion in awarding contracts, according to the Sun-Times. One of the governor’s top campaign aides from 2002 also lobbies for the firm.
Hynes has been an excellent fiscal watch dog with both George Ryan and now Blagojevich. It is a low key, good government issue, but it is important. The problem is you can’t really attack the sitting Democratic Governor for fiscal irresponsibility when you are running for the Democratic Senate Nomination.
yeah, but Hynes’s poll was taken before Hull really started to implode…i doubt it’s a dead heat now.
Is an internal poll one for which you’re not willing to name the pollster??
Is there any reason at all to publish data if someone is unwilling to name the pollster??
Just asking.
Internals are polls paid for by candidates. They may or may not be as accurate. The point isn’t to give them as hard facts, but as another data point. Take them for what you will, but I think they are worth knowing at least. We do know the pollster, but we may not have access to all of the information going into the poll. But that is even true with polls from papers–because we usually don’t know the proprietary formulas for determining likely voters.