To our readers

Sun., Aug. 29, 2004

The Spokesman-Review

The Spokesman-Review and the News Tribune of Tacoma will not publish the results of a poll designed to find out what Washington veterans think about the controversy over presidential candidate John Kerry’s service in Vietnam because of concerns about the methods used during the polling process.

The newspapers commissioned a survey by Research 2000, a national polling firm based in Maryland, to contact 400 veterans throughout the state on Aug. 25-26 by making random phone calls to residences. The research firm provided names and phone numbers of those who were polled and who had agreed to be interviewed by reporters from the two newspapers. The newspapers’ concerns arose when reporters contacted people who had been polled but were not actually veterans.

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