Recently, there was a Zogby poll that came out, claiming Hugo Chavez had a commanding lead over his opposition. Who paid for it is unknown, but Alek Boyd has a new item up indicating that the signs point to Hugo himself.

After all, hasn’t Hugo set up phony polling firms of his own, for the express purpose of ginning up his poll numbers? Alek has exposed that he has on that, too. KA has an item showing it here, and so does Alek. Image-conscious Chavez has a long history of phony polls.

Enter John Zogby. Turns out Zogby has a history of politicized polls and this one seems no different. The polls were all face to face, meaning that Venezuelans would have been terrified of telling their real views and not only that, the margin of error was a provable 30% on who voted for Chavez in the past.

This Michael Rowan report, found by Alek Boyd, is an absolute slam dunk in telling us the gamy history of the Zogby group, the likelihood of voter intimidation and the sheer phoniness of this whole effort. Alek is kickass.

Read the whole thing here.