Monday, August 10, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Rosner's Domain: Why you can't trust J Street polls - '...J Street's polls have always been conducted by Jim Gerstein... J Street says on its polling pages, "Survey analysis from Jim Gerstein, Principal at Gerstein | Agne, the firm that commissioned the poll."... But Jim Gerstein is not simply a principal at the firm that conducts polls for J Street. He was J Street's vice president...You'd never know this from J Street's staff page or the voluptuous promotion that accompanies the release of a J Street poll. You wouldn't know it from all the mentions of Gerstein on J Street's website, in which he is always portrayed as an independent actor. In order to know that he was J Street's founding vice president, you'd have to look at J Street's 990 IRS form...'[Transparency.]
