RoboScam: Not Your Father’s Push Poll
The plot thickens. The automated calls we noted Friday received in the New York Congressional District of Republican Congressman John Sweeney (aRead More…
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SurveyUSA Copycat?
A quick post on an odd news item on automated pollster Survey USA (via alert reader LS). The Glens Falls NY Post-Star reported a week ago that SRead More…
Belated Update: Gallup on Weighting by Party
After yesterday’s post on Gallup’s decision to start reporting two different types of rolling averages regarding the president’s job approval rating, Read More…
Gallup & The Samplemiser
The latest poll release from Gallup includes what appears to be a new approach for reporting their data on the job approval rating of President GeorgeRead More…
Bush Job Rating: No SOTU Bounce
Four organizations have now reported conventional national surveys since the State of the Union, and collectively they show little or no movement in Read More…
Gallup on Blogs 2006
Gallup has a new report out today updating data released last year on self-reported blogs readership. Senior Editor Lydia Saad concludes that gRead More…
Pew Research Center: No Bounce
Another all too busy day at MP world headquarters leaves me just enough time to pass along links to the latest survey from the Pew Research Center (reRead More…
The Numbers Guy on Domestic Eavesdropping Polls
Ah the travails of the not-yet-full-time blogger. Expecting an unusually busy day, I woke early this morning to write up a post on this week’s cRead More…
SOTU Update: Putting it Into Context
I cannot help adding one more footnote to our discussion about "instant reaction" polls conducted after the State of the Union (SOTU) speecRead More…
SOTU Update: Nielsen Ratings
One of the big questions I have about the instant reaction polling on the State of the Union (SOTU) address is the size of the audience and how it haRead More…