More on Party ID
My post on weighting by Party generated by far the most comment, and has left a few good questions unanswered. I’ll try to answer them in the next Read More…
Year: 2004
The Odd Specialization
I’m slowly digging out from under the many comments and emails last week. Thanks to everyone who stopped by. I’ve got a long list of questions tRead More…
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Pop Quiz
Blogger Dalythoughts dug into the 2002 post-election analysis by the National Council on Public Polls (NCCP) and discovered what can happen when a polRead More…
Must Read WSJ Article
In a crush of work yesterday, I somehow missed a terrific article by Sharon Begley in the morning’s Wall Street Journal, “Public-Opinion Polls DiverRead More…
The Election Isn’t Held Today
So far, we have been talking about the limitations of polling, a topic that we will discuss in great detail going further. However, with a slew of neRead More…
No Mystery
First of all, I need to clear up one bit of unintended mystery. As of today, my real name appears on the right sidebar as “editor” and in the authoRead More…
In medias res
Thank you, Mr. Kaus (and, for that matter, Mr. Reynolds as well).
Now that I have your attention, you may be wondering, who am I, and what is this bloRead More…
Weighting by Party
It is nearly impossible to blog on political polling this week without discussing the subject of weighting by Party ID. Ruy Teixeira of the EmerRead More…
So What Should a Junkie Do?
So what are we to make of polling, given that it allows for a wide variance of results at this point in the election? For average voters trying to maRead More…