The NYT Reader’s Guide to Polls
Jack Rosenthal, a former senior editor of the New York Times, filled in as the guest Public Editor” this past Sunday and devoted the column to a remaRead More…
Category: Divergent Polls
MP on NSA Polls on CBS Public Eye
Today I accepted an invitation to contribute to the "Outside Voices" feature on the CBS News blog "Public Eye." My post — aRead More…
Post/ABC on NSA Records – Part II
As expected, Washington Post and ABC News continued conducting interviews over the weekend and released complete results Tuesday afternoon. TheRead More…
NSA Records Polling – Update
I want to continue to discuss the differences in the polls on the NSA records database issue, especially as new surveys are released. We have nRead More…
Another Day, A Very Different Result
Well, another day, another — very different — set of poll results on the NSA phone records surveillance issue. On a new survey out today fromRead More…
‘Twas the Survey Before Christmas…
As things wind down a bit before the holidays, I want to put a little perspective on our recent speculation about the trends in attitudes about PresiRead More…
The RT Strategies Iraq Poll
Yesterday’s front-page analysis of President Bush’s Iraq speech earlier this week by the Washington Post’s Peter Baker included a reference to some reRead More…
Columbus Dispatch Poll: Past Performance No Guarantee of Future Results
“Past performance is no guarantee of future results.” We typically hear that disclaimer applied to financial investments, but in an era of declRead More…
Ideology as a Diagnostic, Part III
In Part I of this series, MP suggested that small differences in self-reported ideology as reported by four different pollsters during 2004 could be Read More…
Ideology as a “Diagnostic?” – Part II
In Part One of this series, we looked at the differences in yearlong averages for self-reported ideology reported by four different pollsters: Read More…