Why did Bush and Lieberman use a fraudulent polling company?

Question

Read about it here:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,212764,00.html

"Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Chang said on several occasions when the company was running up against a deadline to complete a job, results were falsified. Sometimes, the respondent's gender or political affiliation were changed to meet a quota, other times all survey answers were fabricated."

Answer 1

That is like asking why do Redpublicans post asinine questions.

Desperate people use desperate means.

Answer 2

I hope Lieberman kicks the Democrats butt. I'm not a great Lieberman fan but I think he's got more common sense than 99% of the Democrats in Congress. But that's not saying much.

When I was much younger it's wasn't uncommon for Democrats to agree with Republicans and vice versa on occasion. In fact the civil rights bills that Democrats claim to be THEIR sole domain would never have been passed when they were if the Republicans hadn't helped Democrats. And there were Democrats who didn't agree with Democrats on that issue.

But today if a Democrat agrees with a Republican they are automatically blackballed. Zell Miller comes to mind. Zell was a Democrat when many of the 'new' Democrats were still pooping yellow. What right do they have to say he's not a real Democrat? And now the same is happening with Joe Lieberman?

I'm glad in my state the Democrats are still the Democrats of days past! I'd vote for JOE--But I don't live in Connecticut. And if Joe won, jerks would be complaining about my fraudulent voting causing them to lose instead of the vact they are just losers.

Answer 3

The campaign organizations for Lieberman and Bush bought the services of the polling company. The polling company promoted their services and promised results they could not provide. So in order to get paid, they faked their results.

There was NO collusion, no consipiricy, no skulduggery, no plotting.

It was only about two organizations who bought "faulty goods".

Answer 4

In this case it is the client (ie. the political candidates) who is being defrauded. The political candidates counts on the polling service to provide them with reliable data but in this case they where cheated. This is not the same as the polls taken by the news media and meant for the consumpton of the public.

Answer 5

Did you ever take statistics in college..... A person can make them stats say whatever they want..... You just go backward find the fact you want to prove and then prove it with your numbers... What they should do is look at the numbers then see what they say..... The person that made the lie is the guilty party not the one that bought it. Unless you are a standard Bush basher.... In that case Bush caused Katrina.

Answer 6

The only polling company that matters for Bush consists of the American people who vote. That company appeared to have done its job quite well, thank you very much.

Answer 7

It doesn't say either party knew the polling company was acting fraudulently. It says the company is guilty, not the candidates.

Answer 8

the same reason other candidates did....to get info.....too bad the did not name the otehr candidates....oh well, did either of these guys know the were fraudelent? Do you think relying on such polls, they would have used them if they did? Probably not

Answer 9

Bush is a loser! I am ashamed to have him as our President! Of couse he would do some scandelous stuff like use a fraudulent polling company!

Answer 10

fraudulent has come up a lot in the past 5 years associated with the Bush team