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Skipping Elections, Strategic Vision Has Not Polled Since Controversy Arose
Several weeks ago, I ignited a controversy by pointing toward statistical evidence that Strategic Vision, LLC, a Blairsville, Georgia based public relations firm that until recently had issued political polls, may have been faking its results. Strategic Vision vehemently denied my interpretation ...
Strategic Vision Vanishes
politicalwire.com — Nate Silver notes polling firm Strategic Vision has been very quiet since the controversy broke about their... methodology and accusations that they possibly faked results . "Strategic Vision vehemently denied my interpretation of the evidence and made ... (more) Strategic Vision Vanishes
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Strategic Vision Vanishes
Taegan Goddard's Political WireNate Silver notes polling firm Strategic Vision has been very quiet since the controversy broke about their methodology and accusations that they possibly faked results. "Strategic Vision vehemently denied my interpretation of the evidence and made public threats to sue me. But no lawyer has contacted me, and in fact, Strategic Vision has not conducted any further public polling since that time."

Feinstein Still Considering Run for Governor
The Hollywood Liberal — ... “she will base a decision on whether to run for California governor next year largely on the solutions the announced candidates put forward to deal with the state’s fiscal problems,” the AP reports. Republicans have three candidates running for governor: Steve Poizner (R), Meg Whitman (R) and Tom Campbell (R). Democrats have no announced candidate so far, though Attorney General Jerry Brown (D) has formed an exploratory committee. [image] Strategic Vision Vanishes Nate Silver notes polling firm Strategic Vision has been very quiet since the controversy ...

SSP Daily Digest: 11/6
Swing State Project — ... : Mark Blumenthal has a good wrapup of how the various pollsters did on Tuesday. As others have pointed out, IVR polls outperformed live pollsters, at least in the two gubernatorial races (even though they still got weird results in the crosstabs, especially on race). Blumenthal also analyzes what went wrong in NY-23 polling. Also on the polling front, it looks like Nate Silver may have succeeded in scaring off Strategic Vision LLC. As he reports today, not only did they never get around to suing him, but they haven't released any polls since the imbroglio began, despite that ...

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My thoughts on the Strategic Vision Controversy
publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com 9/25/2009 — I've had several people ask me what I think about the Strategic Vision controversy. I think that all companies doing public polling should make their topline demographics and crosstabs easily publicly available. It should be right there on your ...
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strategicvision.biz 9/23/2009 — Below are the results are based on telephone interviews with 800 likely voters in Georgia, aged 18+, and conducted September 18-20, 2009 by telephone. The margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of Governor ...
Real Oklahoma Students Ace Citizenship Exam; Strategic Vision Survey Was Likely Fabricated
fivethirtyeight.com 27 days ago — In detailing some of the evidence against Strategic Vision LLC , a pollster I am now almost certain is disreputable and fraudulent, I pointed in particular to a poll that they conducted on behalf of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, an ...
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strategicvision.biz 8/27/2009 — Below are the results are based on telephone interviews with 800 likely voters in Georgia, aged 18+, and conducted August 21-23, 2009 by telephone. The margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of Governor Sonny ...
Strategic Vision Office Is Located in Rural Blairsville, GA, Not Atlanta As Firm Claims
fivethirtyeight.com 9/28/2009 — The public relations firm Strategic Vision, LLC, which we have raised pointed questions about for the past several days, lists on its website a mailing address of 2451 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 3607 in Atlanta, Georgia and describes itself as being ...
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strategicvision.biz 9/24/2009 — Below are the results of a three-day poll in the state of New Jersey. Results are based on telephone interviews with 800 likely voters in New Jersey, aged 18+, and conducted September 18-20, 2009 by telephone. The margin of sampling error is ±3 ...
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fivethirtyeight.com 9/28/2009
Strategic Vision: Time for Transparency
pollster.com 9/27/2009 — Hey, Inferno from 538 here. (My real name might show up with this.) Anyway. I was about to post the fact that we'd tracked down SV's office over on 538, but I see I've been beaten. I did a quick search on Google Maps and Yellow Pages. The number given ...
Are Oklahoma Students Really This Dumb? Or Is Strategic Vision Really This Stupid?
fivethirtyeight.com 9/28/2009 — Although the evidence continues to mount that there is something very funny about Strategic Vision's process, for the most part there has not been too much reason to question their results themselves, which have tended to play it safe and straight ...
Press Releases - PR-197-2009 11/6/2009
fdic.gov 29 days ago — Ameris Bank, Moultrie, Georgia, Assumes All of the Deposits of United Security Bank, Sparta, Georgia United Security Bank, Sparta, Georgia, was closed today by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, which appointed the Federal Deposit ...