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What a timing coincidence! Obama starts sliding in the polls, including the Gallup polls and his "Justice" Department files a lawsuit against the polling firm. Does anybody else think that this lawsuit is intended to send a loud and clear message to other polling firms with the most important polls of the campaign yet to be conducted? Nah, it was probably just a coincidence. Just like it was just dumb luck that MSNBC was the recipient of $500,000 of taxpayers' money and proceeded to report news as if it were issuing press releases from the West Wing of the White House.

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[COLOR="Blue"]DOJ sues Gallup polling firm

Justice Department officials joined a whistle blower lawsuit and alleged that The Gallup Organization, a major polling firm, intentionally overestimated the amount of time it would take to complete a job for the government and was paid accordingly.

“Contractors who do business with the federal government must honor their obligations to provide honest services and products,” said U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. in a statement on the lawsuit. “Working with relators and federal investigators, we will do all that we can to act against those who illegitimately bill the American taxpayers.”

Gallup, known as one of the premier polling firms with respect to presidential politics, had contracts to conduct surveys for the U.S. Mint and the State Department in addition to other government agencies.
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