Monday, November 19, 2007

MITT ROMNEY

TargetPoint Responds; The 'Profile' of Our Push-Polling Suspect

TargetPoint responds to the NRO piece here.

I note that at one point, they use the term "push poll", as a rival campaign predicted, but they also state flatly, "TargetPoint Consulting has absolutely nothing to do with the calls in question." I still think that if anyone tried to hide behind a Clintonian parsing that they had denied involvement in the "push poll" but not the "message testing", and that the calls in question were the latter and not the former... well, their names would be mud. Let me put it another way - the only folks in politics who would try to get away with a carefully worded denial like that in politics would be the Clintons.

As I just said to Captain Ed on his radio program, whoever is behind these calls isn't interested in working in Republican politics again. That description is about 180 degrees from the guys at TargetPoint.

Again, considering the damage the calls do to both the obvious target (Romney, for the Mormonism questions) and the possible secondary target (McCain, since the calls allegedly praised him), the obvious fact that would turn suspicious eyes to Giuliani (Western Wats worked with the Tarrance Group, which is working for Rudy), the damage done to whoever this trail leads back to, and the near-certainty that this would set off a firestorm in GOP circles, etc., the perpetrator is, I suspect, someone not familiar with how toxic push-polling is, or someone who doesn't care.

11/19 04:12 PMShare