October 24, 2006
Breaking news: Chris Bell within 5 points of Rick Perry *UPDATE*
Houstonist loves breaking news, but sometimes news on blogs exists in an echo chamber. Earlier we reported that a poll commissioned by KBH showed Bell within 5 points, which is what was reported on other blogs and confirmed by someone who said they were sure of the same thing and was in a position to know.
Well, here's the real scoop from Kuff, who heard the same thing:
Burka had heard the poll in question was a Bell poll, whereas I had heard it was a Hutchison poll. (Why would Hutchison also poll in the Governor's race? As a sanity check. Quite a few of the State Rep and Congressional polls of which I'm aware have done similar things.) The fact that Bryan Eppstein would be reluctant to release such a poll doesn't mean it didn't happen, but I've since heard from another person, whom I trust, who says that he didn't conduct any such poll. So, that's all there is to it. I ran with a rumor and it bit me. My apologies for the confusion. I will update the earlier post to reflect this.Of course, the reason why I was willing to believe this is that this mythical poll was in fairly close agreement with polls that we do know about, one from SurveyUSA and now another from Rasmussen. SUSA has Bell at 26, and Rasmussen has him at 25, in each case in second. They have Perry higher, at 36, but a third result pegging him at 32 would not have been ridiculous. It was believable and I believed it, but it didn't exist. Sucks to be me, but there you have it.
There you have it indeed.
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Chris is a great guy and he'll be a great Governor. But just a slight correction to this post: Chris did run for Mayor, but never served as such.
Oops, congressman. Just got too excited about being able to use real "sources" to "confirm" some "breaking news." Thanks.
After talking with sources we can trust, Houstonist can confirm this rumor. Look for it in the Dallas Morning News sometime tomorrow.
I'm not finding this story in the DMN. Do you have a link?
Were your sources at the DMN?
And Bell has never been mayor. He didn't even make it into the runoff in the race he ran.
Thanks, originally meant to put "Congressman" but it was late at night. It's not on the DMN, yet. But they have the story.
Apart from the story, we can confirm that KBH had the poll made and that those are the numbers. We can't say with any confidence when the DMN is going to publish that information, other than we heard it would be today.
It's possible that they're waiting to get a quote from someone, but that's just a guess.
Yeah, so about that BREAKING news....good try, maybe next time.
I guess you are pretty embarassed. But who knows, maybe this mystery poll will show up. I guess thats what you get for trusting people in politics. You've got a lot to learn.
We think we know what happened, there's a poll out there that the media is sitting on, there were just a few details confused. If it comes out we'll be sure to share it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Don't quit your day job...if you even have one.
Here's to wishful thinking! Maybe you can pretend just like this on election day too...but I bet it will be hard to keep up for 4 years!
NOTE: This is the perfect example of why blogs are good for nothing except mental masterbation.
Dear HAHAHAHAHAHAHA,
You spelled masturbation wrong.
Crystal
This is the perfect example of why blogs are good for nothing except mental masterbation.
i suppose that is why we are humbly enchanted by the presence of his/her illuminating comment -- and who knows, maybe the spelling? eek