Joe Walsh
Melissa Bean
A press release from 8th Congressional District Republican candidate Joe Walsh alerts me to polling results for both the 8th and 14th Districts. Melissa Bean is the incumbent Democrat Walsh is challenging.
Democratic Party candidate Bill Foster is the candidate from south of the McHenry County line being challenged by State Senator Randy Hultgren.
Here’s the Walsh press release that led me to We Ask America’s web site:
Poll Shows Walsh Ahead of Bean
(Lake Zurich, Ill)–A poll conducted by We Ask America two weeks after the primary shows Joe Walsh leading incumbent Melissa Bean 38.33% to 37.61%.
8th Congressional District poll results show incumbent Democrat Melissa Bean and Republican Joe Walsh within the margin of error of +/- 3.4%.
The sample size of 827 people was based to match the demographics of the district with a margin of error around ±3.40%.Green Party candidate Bill Sheurer received 3.97% while 20.19% were unsure. We Ask America is a non-partisan polling company that surveys more than 4 million people each year.
The results for the 14th District show Republican Randy Hultgren leading Democrat Bill Foster 37.82% to 36.47%. Green Party candidate Daniel Karis 4.53%.
Results for the 14th Congressional District show incumbent Democrat Bill Foster and Republican Randy Hultgren within the margin of error of +/- 3.4%.
The poll was taken about two weeks after the early February primary election.
The polling firm explained its technique like this:
“As with all of our polls, the participants were selected to match the demographics of the district we called, and were selected from our propriety database of likely voters. The margin of error for each is around ±3.40%.”
What a joke. It appears that We Ask America is affliated with Joe Calomino, a Republican political consultant and current head of Americans for Prosperity. If you consult the “We Ask America” website and or its parent company Xpress Professional Inc. you will quickly come to understand that “selected from our propriety database of likely voters,” really means, “we guarantee the results you are looking for.” What a joke.
If a biased, right wing poll can’t even predict a clear-cut victory for their chosen candidate…
Well, fill in your own ending.
What a great laugher, Cal!
Lets see if they took a poll all around the district not just one area they will get a different result. Lake Zurich is only one part of the district.
It would help if they took a poll from all the voters not just certain ones.
Melissa Bean lied shamelessly in the run up to the vote on health care reform, then claimed she never read the bill, and now STILL persists in the old talking points that it will lower premiums and reduce costs.
On financial services reform, she received over $1.4 million in campaign contributions from banks and — hey hey — personally gutted the reforms to favor banks! The Huffington Post called her “the bank lobbyists’ stooge”.
Her best was her YouTube debut – it’s worth checking out: http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2010/08/video_democrat_1.php
Someone should do a poll on whether the preferred term for her enforcer shown in this video is “thug” or “goon”. I’m undecided.
Condo schmondo – I’m voting for Walsh because he won’t waste our money and raise our taxes.
Melissa Bean is part of the big spending problems in Washington.
She has been co-oped by big lobby money and the left wing extremist, though she tries to portray herself as a moderate, she is anythiing but.
She votes 92% of the time with whatever Pelosi demands.
Let’s replace her with Joe Walsh for the 8th Congressional District and bring some sanity and honesty to Washington.