Kos to Bring Lawsuit Against Polling Firm
Markos Moulistas, the founder of Daily Kos, is suing the polling firm he has relied on for years, accusing them of providing him with fraudulent data:
The lawyer for Daily Kos is not mincing words when it comes to accusing Research 2000 of outright fraud in its poll data.
"He handed Daily Kos fiction and claimed it was fact and got us to put our name on it," said Attorney Adam Bonin of R2K president Del Ali.
In an interview with TPMmuckraker, Bonin, of the firm Cozen O'Connor in Philadelphia, says he will file suit against Research 2000 in the next week in the Northern District of California, where Kos is based. The suit will allege "breach of contract, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and a number of other counts." It will seek damages for "the amount that was paid for this polling, and ... things like reputational harm and punitive damages." Ali and his attorney have forcefully denied the allegations.
"I think the facts are devastating and they speak for themselves," says Bonin, pointing to the statistical analysis posted by Kos that alleges that R2K poll data is "bunk" and possibly the product of some kind of randomizer.
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