Clark, if the Donnelly campaign wants to dispute the Post Dispatch poll, then why don’t you release your own numbers? Has Margaret done a poll in the last three weeks? If so, then let us know what it said. Questioning the integrity of a credible pollster isn’t going to win you any points. It just shows how desperate Donnelly’s has become.

Shecky,

Has Harris done any polls? What are his internal numbers?

Jeff’s ad which is running throughout the state is all positive. That’s a fact. Early on he differentiated himself from Koster but his recent ad which is the biggest buy is all positive.

This information can lead me to believe only one thing - that Koster is looking pretty good in Margaret’s internal polls. If Koster was lagging behind, she wouldn’t waste her time and money on attacking him.

Although I think it’s going to be tight, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see Koster walk away with the primary.

However, not only does that scare Jeff and Margaret, it also scares Mike Gibbons. Mike Gibbons knows the deal is pretty close to done if Koster wins… and it wouldn’t surprise me if Gibbons supporters are all rooting for either Jeff or Margaret because they know that means a Republican victory in November.

Clark,

What the heck do you know about her competence in defending abused children or adults? Why don’t you tell us where we can learn more about her great work as a GAL on behalf of the court, that is suppose to be in the best interest of the children.

Wow, there is so much hostility out hear from the Koster folk. While I’m a Harris supporter, I think it’s unfair to attack the work Donnelly has done. It is not fair to classify her as a divorce attorney, and even if that was all she did, most divorce attorneys aren’t bad people. A majority work hard to reach amicable solutions for their clients in what is one of the toughest times their clients will experience. Its a tough job and is not one that should be blindly attacked by people who have no clue what they are talking about.

Saying that, I just don’t think Donnelly is the best candidate for Attorney General. I feel that Harris trumps Donnelly in basically every category. He has an impressive legal background (which even though the Koster supporters will attack this statement, it is true), he has worked closely with Jay Nixon while working in the Attorney General’s office and as the majority leader, and he stood up for against Matt Blunt and the Republicans in the General Assembly, including Chris Koster. Harris has the best understanding of inner workings of the office and is best prepared to lead the office from the get go.

Harris also has a broader base of support through the state than DonnellyI. This will help a great deal in the general election. Harris has shown he is the strongest candidate in rural Missouri, he his right next to Koster in KC, and he is ahead of Donnelly in St. Louis. Its been brought up in previous posts, but St. Louis candidates haven’t had the most success in statewide raises in the last few years.

When all of this is considered with the fact Harris’ fundraising has picked up drastically in the last month and he has the most cash on hand of any Democrat candadiate, even after Donnelly’s most recent loan, things are still looking great for Harris.

Not a Koster fan, but he really got the hose here. “Money laundering” and “illegal activity”…true, but not in the way most voters will think.

You really must be confused, ConfusedGuy:

1. I don’t work for Harris. Clark does work for Donnelly. I wouldn’t have any access to Harris’ polls (if he has any), while Clark would.
2. Donnelly campaign is trying to say the PD poll isn’t accurate, not Harris. If they want to prove it wrong, then they need to put out some evidence.

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I’ve heard from several people that Donnelly’s campaign keeps trying to push some bogus poll numbers around. The problem is that they won’t ever actually give the numbers to anyone, so no one believes them. If the polling numbers were real, then they’d love to show us all what they’re poll says. So Donnelly’s campaign should either stop lying to people or they should back their hearsay up with some facts.

So what do you say, Clark? If you’re going to knock the PD poll and you campaign is going to keep saying the poll is wrong, then show us the numbers?

Shecky, of course Harris wouldn’t publicly question the P-D poll, because it’s a cash cow for him. I don’t know if the P-D poll can be trusted because I don’t know what their methodology was. Did they use an autodialer or a live caller to conduct the questionnaire? What were the exact questions that were asked? And did they rotate the order of the names? That’s the methodological information I’m looking for, not a website from the pollster patting itself on the back.

We have internal polls that show us doing very well, but with a larger number of undecideds than the P-D poll. We’re not going to release the internal poll because the trade-off of revealing specific information to our competitors is not all that great. I’m sure the other campaigns have their own internal polls, and of course, they are wisely not releasing them, either. We’ll see when the results of the only poll that really matters come in on Tuesday evening.

Even if I had not seen our numbers, a couple of things make me very skeptical that Harris has such a solid lead. One is that he hasn’t been up on the air at the time of the poll, while Koster had just begun his TV campaign and we were just about to. Harris was absent from the airwaves for a long time.

Another is the “fact” that Harris had a lead in St. Louis. He’s not from St. Louis and has very little presence in the area, just a handful of endorsements. And as a blogger, I know that blog ads don’t penetrate all that far yet in the Missouri blogosphere. So do you really think he has a lead in St. Louis? And if he doesn’t really have a lead in Saint Louis, then do you really think he has a lead elsewhere?

Honesty, integrity and morality are qualities the AG should possess.
Koster the impostor doesn’t have it and neither does Dangerous Donnelly.