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Tam

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Obama is sueing Gallup Polling and the DOJ is getting involved too. The DOJ investigated the lawsuit over two years ago and did nothing and now that they need better poll ratings the Lawsuit is to be filed within weeks with the backing of the DOJ.

Talk about using the power of the Oval Office and the Department of Justice to swing that Big Stick Biden claims Obama has.
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Tam

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by Breitbart News6 Sep 2012165post a comment

Senior Obama Campaign adviser David Axelrod reportedly contacted The Gallup Organization to discuss the company's research methodology after their poll's findings were unfavorable to the President. After declining to adjust their methodology, Gallup was named in an unrelated lawsuit by the DOJ.
Axelrod took to Twitter to direct people to an article by the National Journal's Ron Brownstein suggesting a flaw in Gallup's methodology. Brownstein compared Gallup's demographic sampling predictions to previous election exit polls as well as contemporaneous research released by Pew, CNN/ORC and ABC/WaPo.

The heart of the Obama camp complaint lies with varying predictive models for 2012 turnout. Gallup had predicted a lower minority turnout, effecting Obama's margin against Romney.
 

Steve

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Emails suggest Axelrod leaned on Gallup after unfavorable poll

Employees at the venerable Gallup polling firm suggested they felt threatened by Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod when he questioned the methodology of a mid-April poll showing Mitt Romney leading the president – according to internal emails published Thursday.

That poll showed Romney leading Obama 48-43 percent.

According to the email chain titled “Axelrod vs. Gallup,” the White House in addition asked that a Gallup staffer “come over and explain our methodology,” which was apparently perceived as a subtle threat.

However, when Gallup declined to change its polling methodology, the Obama administration’s Justice Department revived a 2009 lawsuit against the firm by joining the suit, a senior Gallup official alleges.
 
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