Ron,
My readers are eager to know if you are stupid or devious? Or both?
In your July 30th column you mentioned a “Democratic in-house poll of New Castle County and statewide candidates” that you first mentioned on July 27th, boasting, “I have the latest in-house Democratic Party poll that includes most of the statewide and New Castle County candidates.”
The first time you mentioned this “in-house” poll you sounded suspicious of the data and mentioned frequently that you found the results “surprising.” By the second time you mentioned the poll your skepticism must have waned though because you don’t mention being so surprised. Not only that, but you take pains to build up the credibility of the poll by stating within the first paragraph that “It was run by Vince D’Anna, former staffer for Sen. Joe Biden, under the name of Delaware Survey Research. He’s done numerous polls over the years, including many for Biden and other Democrats”
But Vince D’Anna (who you neglected to note in your column is supporting John Carney by the way) disclosed, and it has since been confirmed by others, that that the poll in question was done for Tom Gordon and was not an “in-house Democratic Party” poll at all. So my readers are wondering if D’Anna lied to you about the poll or you knowing lied to your readers about the poll.
I have $5.00 riding on the fact that you lied to your readers in order to help boost the John Carney campaign, so your help in clearing this up would be most welcome.
Sincerely,
Jason
Delawareliberal
PS. I hope you don’t mind me calling you “Ron” even though we haven’t met. Since we are both in the journalism biz, I thought a bit of collegiality might be in order. Perhaps not given my question.