Fascinating. Clinton is paying much LESS on her staff than Obama and Edwards. We are always told the opposite, but that was apparently just hubris from the Edwards' and Obama supporters. And, Obama outspending everybody on polling and fundraising? What is up with his huge travel expenditures? Almost a Million for Obama, only $166,000 for Clinton? Obama is burning through a lot of cash.
We get a lot of calls that go roughly like this at our house:
Caller asks to speak with me or my husband, using our names.
Can I ask you a few questions?
Do you plan to participate in the Iowa caucuses next January?
Who do you plan to support at the caucus?
Do you have a second choice? If so, who is it?
What issue is most important to you?
Thank you, goodbye.
They are not gathering enough demographic information to make this a "real" poll. Also, they are not giving you a list of candidates or isses--just asking open-ended questions.
They are calling registered Ds to figure out where their supporters and leaners are, I assume so that they can follow up with phone calls from field organizers.
It's not push-polling or message-testing--they are not testing out lines that might make you change your mind.
I always ask for the name of the company doing the survey, and usually it's not a company I've heard of. I ask whether it's for a campaign, and one time someone said it was for Obama, but usually they just stick to the name of the company doing the survey.
Technically these expenses are probably filed under polling, but I think it's more organizational work.
that the most expensive pollster in the business (mark penn), is not collecting his salary yet but will make it up later?
Yes, I read that. But the portion of the debt to Penn is only 277k, not the claimed $2 Million. So, my point is valid.
Maybe he only travels in big time style?
she hasn't paid her staff completely yet.
Nice try though.
