Poll: Mark Taylor ahead of Cathy Cox by 21 points

[Boredtodeath]

Mark Taylor, one of two Democrats seeking their party's nomination to challenge Perdue in November, released numbers from his pollster showing he now leads rival Cathy Cox in that race.

An InsiderAdvantage/Opinion Research poll in mid-March put Cox at 42 percent, Taylor at 31 percent and 27 percent undecided, based on interviews with 300 likely Democratic voters. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 6 percent.

The poll conducted for Taylor by Alan Secrest of Alexandria, Va., a Democratic pollster, said that Taylor leads Cox 51 percent to 30 percent with 1 percent for Bill Bolton and 19 percent undecided. The survey was conducted May 8-10 among 808 likely Democratic voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent.

Between the two polls, Taylor launched a strong TV ad campaign. Cox only today debuted her first ad...
I should mention that Alan Secrest of the Cooper & Secrest polling firm also did polling research for Zell Miller (Governor), Wyche Fowler (U.S. Senate), John Lewis and David Scott (U.S. Congress), Pierre Howard (Lt. Governor), Thurbert Baker (Attorney General), and Lewis Massey (Secretary of State).
http://georgiaunfiltered.blogspot.com/2006/05/mark-taylor-opens-up-51-30-percent.html#links

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. sure........and monkeys might fly out of my butt

Your source is as biased as they come for Mr. Taylor.
I'd stick with every other single poll that has been conducted that still shows her leading him.

[Boredtodeath]

2. OK, but explain this........

If the polling firm has a history of polling for DEMS and both of these candidates are DEMS, can you explain where the bias might be?

It's a serious question. Really.

[RubyDuby in GA]

3. I didn't say the polling firm had a bias

just where you got your info.

[Boredtodeath]

4. The source just printed the numbers

That's just fact.

The poll is fact.

So you just dismiss polls because of who POSTED them on the internet?

[RubyDuby in GA]

5. This particular one, yes

But I will also make this point:

Every poll conducted thus far shows Cathy leading by quite a bit. One of the more reliable ones, Strategic Vision, and numerous others are all independent polls and every one of them, including the May 7th poll, have shown Cox in the lead. This is an internal poll from the Taylor campaign. I suspect that Cox's people could put out internal polls showing her leading him by huge numbers.

I'd like to know who they "randomly" sampled (as I always vote Democratic and I didn't get polled) and furthermore, I'd like to see the questions that were asked. Independent polls will provide this information. This polling company is not releasing this info.

Finally, the timing. She's getting press for putting out her first TV ad, so it's bumping him out of the spotlight that he's had all to himself for about a week now.

[whododayis]

6. where was the sample from? the piggly wiggly in Albany?