Reply #9: Vinod Gupta...Mark Penn...Doug Schoen [View All]

[madfloridian]

One of her main advisors, Mark Penn, has a polling company which I assume is still functioning, though he is also connected to world wide groups. His partner, Doug Schoen, is also a Hillary advisor.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1193

But read about Vinod Gupta who bought a polling company called infoUSA which does polls for CNN...and I don't know who else.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/14/us/politics/14gupta.html?_r=1&oref=login

"Mr. Gupta, who arrived in Nebraska from India in 1967, was unusually successful in working his way into the Democratic fold, to the point where he found himself sleeping in the Clinton White House, vacationing with the former president and appointing the Democratic chairman, Terry McAuliffe, to the board of one of his companies. He gave consulting contracts worth $3 million to Mr. Clinton, and recently hired the son of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Because of those close links with Democrats, he stirred conflict-of-interest questions by buying a company that does presidential polling for CNN."

Good men, all of them, but so many ties to pollsters.