Obama Administration Bullied Gallup Polling Firm After Poll Showed Obama Trails Romney

Obama Administration Bullies Gallup Polling Firm After Poll Showed Obama Trails Romney

Obama Administration Bullies Gallup Polling Firm After Poll Showed Obama Trails Romney

Due to a bad poll for Obama, the Obama administration seems to have tried strong-arming the Gallup polling firm into changing their methodology, and then when it appeared that Gallup was not going to comply with Obama and Axelrod’s bullying, the Obama administration moved to punish Gallup for not playing Obama’s game.

“when Gallup declined to change its polling methodology, the Obama administration’s Justice Department revived a 2009 whistle-blower lawsuit against the firm by joining the suit”

Employees at the venerable Gallup polling firm suggested they felt threatened by Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod when he questioned the methodology of a mid-April poll showing Mitt Romney leading the president – according to internal emails published Thursday.

That poll showed Romney leading Obama 48-43 percent.

The exchange, according to emails published by The Daily Caller, started when Axelrod sent a tweet saying the tracking poll was “saddled with some methodological problems” and directing followers to a National Journal story in which a professor suggested outdated sampling.

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