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From my DD:
Time For a Clinton Pollster's Ethics Panel (Chris Bowers)
Mystery Pollster tells a sordid tale of Hillary Clinton's pollster, Penn, Schoen and Berland, shilling for the pharmaceutical industry on anti-Democratic messaging, and not disclosing it. Now, Penn, Schoen and Berland has long been a DLC-nexus uber-pollster, designing questions that give the utterly false impression of a massive mushy middle (although I think they use the term "radical" middle). Considering that allowing the government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies is a key piece of the early Democratic agenda in Congress, I would hope that this latest instance of a DLC-nexus Democratic consultant's conflict of interest and / or lack of disclosure would raise some red flags inside the Clinton campaign and, as such, they would seek out a new pollster. Or, will keeping the firm on be a sign that a Clinton presidency would mean business as usual when it comes to the all too common conflict of interests among highly paid Democratic lobbyists / consultants? This may seem like a small point now, but it will get much bigger later on if not properly addressed.
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