Comments on: A Strategic Vision poll — and a letter of censure

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By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:45:06 +0000

rick,
So you think Liberals have stupid facts and logic, ah. Yes, let’s investigate the “wrongdoers” and let’s start with corrupt polling firms that spew out bogus data and claim it to be “fact” in hopes that voters will see and read their bogus data and follow like good little lemmings to their slaughter. Wrong, not happening anymore. If this Administration really cares about Democracy, they’ll send the FBI after ever corrupt politician that special interest money has bought off and give us a chance to replace them with something hopefully better. And hopefully the professional trade association will publicly call out all their bad actors; “trade secrets”, who you kidding! They’re not doing heart transplants, they are asking simple questions of the public, supposedly.

By: rick

rick — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:49:05 +0000

Stupid Liberals and their facts and logic. Let’s investigate the people who noticed things instead of the wrongdoers. There is already too much tattling out there.

By: Doodlebug McPherson

Doodlebug McPherson — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:05:48 +0000

Witch hunt in progress, perhaps? Does anyone else out there think that the liberal pollsters are trying to eliminate competition by attacking a conservative entity YET AGAIN??? Enough already! Obama is a failure. Accept that, liberals, and move on.

By: Ed Marshall

Ed Marshall — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:46:29 +0000

Just FYI, Nate Silver has done some analysis of the polling results from Strategic Vision over the past few years, and there’s definitely something fishy about their results…

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/strategic-vision-polls-exhibit-unusual.html

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:33:21 +0000

The story should be follow the money with AAPOR. They are paid consultants for a competitor of Strategic Vision’s. They have a vested interest in harming the company. Indeed several members of AAPOR contacted a client of SV’s before this report and suggested they go and use the polling firm they consult for. Also if they are for transparency why won’t they release the complaint. I thought in America one had a right to face their accuser. Finally isn’t Stephen Blumberg with AAPOR also the guy who got caught stealing the library books. Great organization.

By: RLP

RLP — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:33:00 +0000

AAPOR, the American Association for Public Opinion Research, yesterday reprimanded Atlanta-based PR firm Strategic Vision, LLC for failing to disclose even basic information about their political polls:

For more than one year, AAPOR was unable to obtain the following basic information about Strategic Vision LLC’s polling in New Hampshire and Wisconsin: who sponsored the survey; who conducted it; a description of the underlying sampling frame; an accounting of how “likely voters” were identified and selected; response rates; and a description of any weighting or estimating procedures used.

This is a highly unusual step for AAPOR, which tends to be a conservative (lower-case ‘c’) organization that would not ordinarily be inclined to call out an individual pollster by name. But Strategic Vision brought the criticism entirely upon themselves, being the only one of 21 polling firms contacted by the organization that did not respond to the request, in spite of having literally months’ worth of time to do so. As Mark Blumenthal notes, moreover, this is hardly an isolated incident: Strategic Vision has a long history of failing to disclose anything at all about their methodology, obfuscating around repeated requests from places like the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Nor is Strategic Vision any better about disclosing such information to the general public. By contrast, they never provide any demographic detail, cross-tabulations, methodological disclosure, or other supporting evidence in conjunction with their polls.

So let me ask a few more questions of David E. Johnson, Strategic Vision’s CEO. I don’t purport to have answers to these questions, but I think they deserve to be asked.

1. Are you actually polling anyone at all? Or are you just throwing some numbers up on a webpage and hoping nobody calls you on it?

2. What is the location of your “offices” in Tallahassee, Madison and Dallas? Why is there no street address or phone number listed in association with them? How come none of the locations show up in a Yahoo! or Google search?

3. Why would you pick the name “Strategic Vision, LLC” for your company when the name “Strategic Vision, Inc.” was already in use by an extremely well regarded, San Diego-based research firm that has been in business for more than 30 years? Are you deliberately trying to confuse your potential clients and leverage Strategic Vision, Inc.’s much stronger brand name?

I await a reply from Mr. Johnson. But quite honestly, I’m not really expecting one.

By: Philip

Philip — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:54:28 +0000

Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com looked into this as well and had these questions for Mr. Johnson:

1. Are you actually polling anyone at all? Or are you just throwing some numbers up on a webpage and hoping nobody calls you on it?