“The Tide Has Turned on Party ID”
Last week, Gallup posted an analysis of the long term trend in party identification. Unfortunately, by the time I got a chance to read Jeff JonRead More…
Year: 2006
Immigration: Ask Many Questions, Not One
Over the weekend, Mickey Kaus criticized an immigration question asked on a recent Time Magazine poll as having "comically biased wording." Read More…
Focus Groups – What They’re Not
Yesterday, the Hotline On Call blog reported on focus groups conducted by Republican pollster Frank Luntz recently among Democrats in Iowa and New HamRead More…
Newport’s Answer to Kurtz
A belated link: Two weeks ago, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz asked (and Mickey Kaus amplified) a question in his blog about "only compRead More…
The AMA Spring Break Survey – Part II
Picking up where we left off yesterday, the AMA’s Spring Break survey has problems other than the disclosure of its methodology. We must also cRead More…
The AMA Spring Break Survey – Part I
Last week, MP discussed a not-quite projective study of evacuees from Hurricane Katrina published by the New York Times. I noted the effort madRead More…
Link Roundup
Here is a round-up of some quick links on an otherwise busy day:
Prof. Franklin unpacks more analysis on why the Bush job rating seems to indicate weeRead More…
New Low or Steady? Franklin’s Answer
Last week, in looking at the graph of the Bush approval rating data as plotted by our friend Prof. Charles “Political Arithmetik” Franklin, I asked wRead More…
On Random Sampling and NYT Katrina Evacuee Study
An article in yesterday’s New York Times on interviews conducted among Katrina evacuees raises some very important questions about how to use a surveyRead More…
Gallup CNN Break-Up
And speaking of Gallup…
Here at MP, we are not prone to posting gossipy items about the polling industry, largely because what little gossip MP hearRead More…