“SciMathGuy”, writing at Daily Kos, in April:
It’s nice to see Daily Kos mentioned in articles on the Internet, no matter where they are, especially if they’re not rabidly screaming that we’re a bunch of Commie Nazi Fascist socialist freedom-hating America-hating hummaseckshul anything-I-left-out sub-humans who should go back to our countries of origin. Heh. It’s especially nice to see that somebody, somewhere, has noticed that the (non-diary) polls we use are non-partisan and aren’t push polls designed to squeeze specific responses out of respondents.
Our analyses are, of course, our own.
As per the article: “I don’t do any analysis,” said Del Ali, president of Research 2000, the firm that conducts polls for the Daily Kos. “The client pays for the data, and we’re not standing over their shoulders saying, ‘Hey, this is what you’re gonna write.’”
We’re now Pew here, but from what I can tell, we try to be fair. We’ve had plenty of stories and diaries on how to read and interpret polls. Pie has been thrown. Feelings have been hurt. GBCWs have been written. Still, in the end, each of us can read the numbers, read the analyses, and come to our own hopefully-accurate conclusions.
And every now and then, somebody in that big outside world will notice that the Great Orange Satan uses non-partisan non push polls. Oh, YES!
You know, even push polls collect actual data.