If the data presented earlier today regarding Research 2000's results is accurate, this appears to be the second instance in less than a year of a pollster being busted in the chops for possibly cooking its figures. And that first instance involved a Repub polling firm.
For those who don't recall, last fall the Repub-leaning pollster Strategic Vision was exposed as a fraud, in large part because of evidence its polls weren't really random--the same charge being made against R2K. In September, Nate peered into the guts of Strategic Vision's polls from 2005 to 2008, and noticed that the great majority of its results had numbers ending in high trailing digits. It's hard not to draw parallels with R2K's preference for even and odd numbers for both genders.
Following that report, Strategic Vision stopped conducting polls. It wasn't heard from again until March, when it released a poll on the Georgia gubernatorial primaries that was sharply criticized for not meeting minimal disclosure requirements--the same thing that got it in trouble with the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
We all know that the wingers are jumping for joy at this. But this is just something to throw back at them.