Commentary on statement on negative campaigning and polling

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Another possible productive use of ranked voting would be for a future presidential primary. Given the fact that a primary would be held months before the date of the national conventions, it makes sense to permit voters to indicate their choice among a group of candidates, not knowing which one might survive the primary/caucus process.

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Totally agree with your statement!

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Fritz Wenzel, Director of Communications, Zogby International
Thank you for your thoughts. Our chief concern is to produce accurate and informative results and we will continue to review our processes.

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I have read the statement, and my reaction is that I am not a sociologist and I am not in the polling business, and I believe neither is the Civic Caucus. I am therefore mystified a bit, as this proposal makes for a great hypothesis to be tested, but it should hardly be a policy statement or anything binding on present or future polling operations, at least until it is tested and proven. This is the major problem in politics -- an idea simply has to sound good, and people will run with it.