John DiStaso's Granite Status: UNH polling techniques cause angst among Dems

By JOHN DISTASO Senior Political Reporter 3 hours, 3 minutes ago A University of New Hampshire poll released yesterday showing Sen. John Sununu climbing into a statistical dead heat with Jeanne Shaheen and Carol Shea-Porter losing to one potential GOP challenger is apparently causing angst among Democrats. UNH's polling technique is being questioned on the liberal Web log BlueHampshire.com, which began disparaging its methods on Tuesday, about seven hours before it was released. A writer there said UNH's polls have "serious sampling problems." Too many Republicans are being included, apparently, at least for BlueHampshire's liking. We have no intention of defending polls by UNH or anyone else. We'll simply take a look at the numbers and poll director Andrew Smith's explanation of how he arrives at those numbers. But if this... [read full story]                    

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