Cox in the Lead?

Mitchell is on Cox's Payroll (0.00 / 0)

Mitchell is a longtime Republican hack that even the serious Republican camapaigns do not use as their actual campaign pollster. Interestingly Mitchell's wife, his firms President and CFO, was a fundraiser for Kilpatrick and Mitchell probably did other work for Kilpatrick. Maybe Mitchell is the person who put Cox together with Kilpatrick to thwart the MSP investigation of the Manoogian?  

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by: Elliot @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 18:35:26 PM UTC

Lead (0.00 / 0)

It depends on what one means by lead.  Cox has been on the state-wide ballot twice and is currently in state-wide office.  Hoekstra never has.  A year out from the election when there has been no media campaign taking place, Cox should be polling far ahead of Hoekstra.  The fact that they're in a statistical dead heat is a very good sign for Hoekstra, especially when other recent polling shows Hoekstra slightly ahead.

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by: Brady @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 18:54:11 PM UTC

4% Margin of Error, So 3% Lead Over Hoekstra Means Little (4.00 / 1)

And the link is missing a trailing .html, BTW

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by: boehmianrhapsody @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 20:09:30 PM UTC

CrossTabs please (0.00 / 0)

Anytime I see one of these polls, I ask "where are the crosstabs?" Mitchell (surprise) does not provide crosstabs for much-nor does the Yob outfit. Mitchell came to one of my graduate classes at Michigan to talk about polling and GOP politics, and boy was he a hack. A week before Graholm thumped DeVos, Mitchell said that DeVos was going to win by 7%.

Personally, I think Cox is not going to do too well, although if he makes it to the general, good for the Dems.  

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by: pbratt @ Wed Dec 02, 2009 at 01:16:55 AM UTC

Works for Governor DeVos (0.00 / 0)

In a hypothetical election for Governor of Michigan today, 8/8/2006, Republican Dick DeVos defeats Democrat incumbent Jennifer Granholm, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for WDIV-TV Detroit and WZZM-TV Grand Rapids. DeVos gets 50% today, Granholm gets 42%.

SurveyUSA, three months before Granholm trounced him by 14.

In other words, you know that idea that polls don't mean much? It's true.

Great Lakes, Great Times, Great Scott

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by: ScottyUrb @ Wed Dec 02, 2009 at 05:45:12 AM UTC

Mitchell may be a hack, but (0.00 / 0)

Politico picked up the story. We'll see how far Cox will run with this in his fundraising.

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by: kelster @ Thu Dec 03, 2009 at 01:47:57 AM UTC