Quote (bogie160 @ Nov 5 2021 10:50pm)
I want to know what "comprehensive" means. Top line figures, e.g. PA 47 46? A majority of the polling data was publicly available, and I have a hard time believing that Russian intelligence is unaware of the existence of publicly available poll aggregators. The notion that the Russian government specifically had anything to gain from this seems ridiculous. Without getting drawn down the conspiratorial rabbit hole, it sounds like Manafort was trying to leverage his existing role into future business opportunities, as he had done for more than a decade, and used Kilimnik, his long standing business partner, to do it.
Presidential campaigns always conduct extensive internal polling which is not available to the public.
They had plenty of data that wasn't publically available to give bro.