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Research 2000 is a left-leaning polling firm that has been contracted by Daily Kos over the past few years. Typically, the Research 2000 / Daily Kos polls are the only ones that show “good” news for President Obama.

• BREAKING: Daily Kos to Sue Research 2000 for Fraud (538)
• More on Research 2000 (Kos)
• My Own Suspicions About Research 2000 (538)
• Research 2000 Issues Cease & Desist Letter to FiveThirtyEight (538)
• Research 2000: Problems in plain sight (Kos)

Here is R2K’s attempt to silence FiveThirtyEight:

Nate Silver Letter re: Daily Kos (6-29-2010)

Major Props to the folks at Daily Kos for acting quickly on this.

The boys at ComingAnarchy might enjoy this one…

I am close to wrapping up my tour of South East Asia, having visited Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia. In all three countries Chinese strikes me as more useful than England. This was especially surprising in Thailand and Malaysia, which are noted tourist areas… I can get almost nowhere in English, but I find a large fraction of the folks I meet can communicate with me in Chinese. I find that conversations stress my Chinese vocabulary much less often than while actually in China, though, so it seems that most people who speak it have picked it up as a second language.