Another Step Forward for the Netroots
This (Daily Kos getting into the polling business big time) is truly impressive, and a sign of how far the netroots has come in the past few years:
Given the success of the early-season polling, I’ve decided for more polling. Lots, lots more.
First of all, we’re going to join the ranks of the “daily tracking poll” outfits. Polling begins today, and with a three-day rolling average, our first published results will come Thursday. Unlike other outfits, we’ll remain fully transparent about our results, including the daily samples (which everyone else refuses to release).
We’re also going to aggressively poll presidential, Senate, and even House races all over the country, with a package that will give us an average of more than one poll a day until this thing is called (yup, that’s more than 56 polls, which is how many days we have left to the election). We’ve got some ramping up to do, so just three polls this week (Maine, North Carolina, and Mississippi), but we’ll have a flood of them coming in before long. I’m particularly excited about targeting a couple dozen (or so) House races, given the dearth of polling at that level.
All the stuff in that Roll Call story will remain — we won’t cherry-pick which polls or information to feature. Every poll I commission will be published, with the crosstabs including all the info delivered by R2K. I’ll continue to run all the good stuff, the bad stuff, and anything in between.
This is going to be fun.
Fun indeed, and another sign of the “Netroots Rising!”