The Washington Post noted that in 2000 ARG's "tracking poll ended up buried deepest in the snowbank: They had Bush winning by two points the day before the primary -- merely 20 off the mark."[12] Salon found in 2004 that ARG did not reveal the funding sources of their polls.[13] Mother Jones observed in 2007 that ARG "may not be the bellwether for accurate polling."[3] The New Republic found in 2008 that "ARG is a black sheep of the polling world; I repeatedly heard it singled out for scorn by other pollsters."[14]