Hell to Pay: Seals v. Kirk Main Event

by SusanG [courtesy of Daily Kos]

Listen to Dan Seals thank us for the Hell to Pay program:

And to get the full rundown on how his rival Mark Kirk disputed the Daily Kos/Research2000 polling numbers--and called our site "anti-semitic" in the process, read here.

And to get an idea of how deceptive the Kirk campaign is, get a load of the email they were circulating to lobbyists after our poll came out:

Subject: Mark Kirk campaign update

Just wanted to touch base about the Kirk race.

Pro-Kirk ads are running 2:1 to Dan Seals just this week alone. Kirk/allies are spending $500k this week on TV and Seals/allies are spending $200k. We outraised Dan Seals again this quarter, raising $850k, Dan Seals raised $700k. Team Kirk has now raised over $4.7m.

Earlier this week, Daily Kos came out with a poll with Kirk leading Seals 6 points....44% Kirk to 38% Seals. The following day Roll Call in DC came out with a poll with Kirk down 8 points to Seals.....Seals 52% to Kirk 44%. Our poll 48 hours later showed us with a 10-point lead. Our polling shows Seals has never moved into the 40s, like Daily Kos.

The Roll Call poll was conducted by Survey USA. Politico, Realcelarpolitics and the MSM won't publish any of their stuff (SurveyUSA got 17 races wrong last time). I am not sure how much you know about the pollster but they do automated computer calls and do not distinguish between kids/adults, voters/non-voters, citizens/non-citizens. You have to wonder how they remain in business but hey, they are cheap - get what you pay for. As for the Daily Kos, they have us leading by 6 but over-sampled Democrats and young voters. Also, it was conducted on Rosh HaShanah, excluding observant Jews who heavily support and fund the pro-Israel Kirk.

We are in the final stretch with 25 days to go. To keep pace, we need your help. If you have any last minute contributions, please send our way. We can take them online at www.kirkforcongress.com or mailed to: Kirk for Congress, PO Box 8, Winnetka, IL 60093. For those of you who are maxed, thank you for everything you have done to be helpful!

I am headed out to the district next week. I will keep you updated as events occur and most importantly, I will send election results.

We're here tonight to let Mark Kirk know that our community doesn't put up with labeling and bullshit, and that we're proud to support such a tremendous progressive candidate for IL-10 as Dan Seals. We need to give Kirk the boot.

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