The Huffington Post has recently bought pollster.com, a site that is dedicated to the aggregation of poll data, reports The New York Times.

HuffPo's purchase of the site comes on the heels of its purchase of Adaptive Semantics, a company that focuses on learning and sentiment analysis. While CEO Eric Hippeau claimed that the acquisition of Adaptive Semantics did not signal a buying spree for the company, its acquisition of the polling site certainly signals that the HuffPo is taking a more aggressive position in political journalism.

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