Frustrated by the failure of any "independent" poll to include his name along with those of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and former California Secretary of State Bill Jones as a candidate on the list from which a poll respondent was allowed to choose, Judge Gray took $2,000 of his campaign money and hired the Rasmussen Reports national business and politics polling company to conduct a poll of 500 likely California voters in which they would be given his name, along with those of Boxer and Jones, as one they could select as their choice for U.S. Senator.

This poll was conducted on July 22, 2004. The results were published on the Rasmussen Reports web site on July 26th.

Scott Rasmussen is the President of Rasmussen Reports.

On July 27, Mr. Rasmussen spoke exclusively with California Politics Today about his company's polling methodology, the poll it conducted for the Gray for Senate campaign, and various other matters of interest.

You can hear that interview by clicking here.