The Fix: IVR Surveys & Response Rates
Yesterday (just before the Typepad outage that prevented me from posting all day), Chris Cillizza’s The Fix blog at WashingtonPost.com took a helpful Read More…
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Gallup: Bush Job Approval at 40%
Gallup reported on their latest national survey today, which shows the Bush job approval rating bumping up to 40% (the Gallup release is free to all Read More…
Connecticut Primary Polls: No Easy Task
For all the attention paid lately to the Connecticut’s upcoming Democratic primary election between Senator Joseph Lieberman and challenger Ned LamontRead More…
Pew Interview: Mitofsky on the Mexican Exit Polls
This week’s belated focus on the U.S. exit poll controversy was well timed, as exit polls once again made news, this time in the Mexican elections.&nbRead More…
Is RFK, Jr. Right About Exit Polls? – Part IV
This post concludes my paragraph-by-paragraph review of the discussion of the exit polls in the article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in Rolling Stone, “Read More…
It’s What We Call Spin?
Thanks to alert reader LS who tipped me off to an old story that I had missed, but that is still worthy of notice on MP. Nearly two monthsRead More…
Update: Withdrawal Timetable Polls
A quick update to yesterday’s post: With the help of Prof. Charles Franklin, I bring you a chart showing the trend in five questions that have Read More…
Polling on a Timetable for Withdrawal
The national polls released over the last few weeks have included a flurry of new or updated questions on proposals to set a "timetable" forRead More…
The Battle of the Bulge Poll
Last Sunday, Bush press secretary Tony Snow speculated about what polls might have shown during World War II: "If somebody had taken a pollRead More…
Update II: Military Social Conservatives
It gets more interesting. Here is the promised update to the posts of the last two days, based on some fascinating analysis sent by Jason DempsRead More…