Poll-averse Bernie Sanders hires former Howard Dean pollster
(CNN)Bernie Sanders, who has recently blasted poll-tested politicians, has hired a pollster of his own as his campaign enters a key stretch before the early nominating contests.
The Sanders campaign defended Monday their decision to hire former Howard Dean pollster Ben Tulchin, just a few days after Sanders knocked other politicians for taking politically convenient positions.
"Bernie has never been interested in polling but we convinced him we needed data for targeting," said Tad Devine, Sanders' top strategist, in a statement. "Now that we are going to do paid media next month, he approved having a pollster to give us the data we need to buy media correctly and target the ads."
Sanders' top aides, namely Devine, had been pushing for the campaign to hire a pollster, particularly because they wanted to test what aspects of the senator's stump speech were resonating and which aspects weren't.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/politics/bernie-sanders-howard-dean-pollster/
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Super pac next Burnie? 
Apparently Sanders and I have that in common. I don't think Bernie's going to be changing his positions based on this. 
It looks like there might be a reason not to give poll numbers the weight we see happen in presidential campaigns:
http://time.com/4067019/gallup-horse-race-polling/
