SOTU Instant Reaction Update
As expected, both Gallup and CBS News conducted instant analysis surveys among debate watchers last night. Last night, Gallup called back responRead More…
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SOTU: On Bounces and Spin
From the polling perspective, if recent history repeats itself, we can assume two things will occur after the President’s State of the Union (SOTU) sRead More…
Pre-SOTU Polls
The last week brought a batch of new surveys from the national pollsters. While these include new questions that go into great depth on pRead More…
Update: The MyDD Poll
The MyDD survey that we discussed last week is now complete, and the site is rolling out the results over the weekend (here, here and here so far, witRead More…
Palestinian Exit Polls
Wednesday’s Palestinian elections once again highlight the shortcomings of exit polls as a tool for projecting election results. One of the manyRead More…
Party ID Updates
Here is another quick update on some interesting releases over the last week or so on the subject of party identification from Harris and Gallup. Read More…
The MyDD Poll
While we’re on the topic of poll questions commissioned by web sites on the blogosphere’s left wing, here is a truly innovative development: TheRead More…
Diageo/Hotline Updates
A very busy end-of-week left me with only enough time to note the latest Diageo/Hotline poll which was released on Thursday (press release, results, Read More…
Polling on Impeachment – Part 1
At a town hall meeting in San Francisco on Monday, according to a report in the LA Times, Democratic Minority Leader. Nancy Pelosi had to shout "Read More…
More Bush Job Rating Polls
Just have time to post links to a few new surveys that included the Bush job rating that I had not seen last week or that have been released since.&nbRead More…