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Kos and Research 2000.

"While the investigation didn't look at all of Research 2000 polling conducted for us, fact is I no longer have any confidence in any of it, and neither should anyone else. I ask that all poll tracking sites remove any Research 2000 polls commissioned by us from their databases. I hereby renounce any post we've written based exclusively on Research 2000 polling."

Okay. So then... this one?

? 39% of Republicans want President Obama to be impeached.

? 63% think Obama is a socialist.

? Only 42% believe Obama was born in the United States.

? 21% think ACORN stole the 2008 election....

We all talked about that. It was garbage?! Here's what I had to say at the time (boldface added):

Yes, we have to stop first and wonder how good are the Daily Kos/Research 2000 pollsters. I picked up this story at Talking Points Memo, where there's no information about why I should trust this poll. How did they locate their 2,000 "self-identified" Republicans, who, TPM tells us represent "the psyche of the minority party's base"?...

Here's the Kos post announcing the results of the poll. It begins with this mind-boggling sentence:

"As I've mentioned before, I'm putting the finishing touches on my new book, American Taliban, which catalogues the ways in which modern-day conservatives share the same agenda as radical Jihadists in the Islamic  world." It turns out this poll was designed to help him with that theory.

How independent and reliable is Research 2000?

Now, Kos is distancing himself from Research 2000. But I want to know the whole story. What's going on with that book of his?

Full post as published by Althouse on June 29, 2010 (boomark / email).