A Personal Note

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I hesitate to discuss personal matters here, but I want to explain the lack of posts today: Unfortunately, my nearly two-year old daughter, who had been running a fever all weekend, had to be admitted to a hospital early this morning with a nasty case of pneumonia. As I type these words she is sleeping comfortably (at last), the monitor over her bed shows her vital signs slowly returning to near normal, Cheney and Edwards quietly spar on the television hanging on the wall and her Mommy and Daddy are finally beginning to relax after a very trying day.

Needless to say, I’ve been a bit distracted the last 24 hours. I may post something later this evening, as I’m not likely to sleep much in this hospital room, but no promises. Many thanks for your patience.

Mark Blumenthal

Mark Blumenthal is the principal at MysteryPollster, LLC. With decades of experience in polling using traditional and innovative online methods, he is uniquely positioned to advise survey researchers, progressive organizations and candidates and the public at-large on how to adapt to polling’s ongoing reinvention. He was previously head of election polling at SurveyMonkey, senior polling editor for The Huffington Post, co-founder of Pollster.com and a long-time campaign consultant who conducted and analyzed political polls and focus groups for Democratic party candidates.