Nate Silver blasts PPP for suppressing pro-recall polling results; Updated

http://twitter.com/#!/fivethirtyeight/status/377851070363762688

Just prior to Colorado’s recall election, the liberal-leaning pollsters at Public Policy Polling Company conducted a poll of likely voters in Angela Giron’s district (Senate District 3). The poll showed Giron losing by 12 points, a finding that we now know was spot-on but seemed bizarre at the time … so bizarre, in fact, that PPP chose not to publish it.

Now PPP is receiving fire not only from some conservatives but also from FiveThirtyEight editor Nate Silver for its decision to withhold those results from the public.

https://twitter.com/fivethirtyeight/status/377854385503870977

PPP acknowledges that it routinely withholds results from the public, especially if it there are red flags in the results:

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/377827592813805568

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/377827749643042816

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/377827979537035264

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/377828390918569984

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/377829001986719744

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/377829247554813953

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/377830093143281664

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/377830290455937024

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/377830495590952960

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/377831249416445952