Three Democratic state Senate candidates (Don Davis, Margaret Dickson and Joe Sam Queen) are suing the NC Republican Party and their opponents in the 2010 election because allegedly (1) the party improperly used a media discount available to candidates to pay for multiple broadcast advertisements, and (2) the party violated the Stand By Your Ad law by not being identified in the ads. Blistering ads and mailers filled with inflammatory, false and grossly misleading statements made the past election one of the nastiest in recent years. Stand by for more in 2012 – unfortunately, a lot more! Speaking of misleading the public, Democracy North Carolina called out the Pope Civitas Institute for issuing polls it claims represent the views of “a fully representative sample of registered voters” but which are really its own views bouncing through an echo chamber of cherry-picked respondents. Amazingly, some mainstream media outlets repeat Pope Civitas “poll findings” as though they have credible news value.
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All these polls are bogus, we as citizens should disregard them. Of course this is done by groups with affiliations to each party. Please don’t think it’s just right wing groups. We’ve all seen groups like Moveon.org do the same thing.