Ideology as a “Diagnostic?” – Part I
A few weeks ago, blogger Gerry Daly (Dalythoughts) took a close look at self-reported ideology as reported on several national polls. Daly was Read More…
Category: Divergent Polls
Judicial Filibuster: Post Mortem
MP is admittedly still playing catch up, but the explosion of polling on judicial nominees deserves a bit of a follow-up. Viewed side-by-side, Read More…
Realignment or a “Crappy” Poll?
Last Friday, in the Today’s Paper’s feature, Slate’s Eric Umansky observed: USA Today goes Page One with a poll showing President Bush’s rating aRead More…
More on Dueling Florida Polls
Another update on my last post on the mysterious difference in opinion on whether Jeb Bush should run for president as measured by two publicly releaRead More…
Should Jeb Run…Or Not:?
The Hotline (subscription required) caught an intriguing polling conflict yesterday. A just released Quinnipiac poll of 1,007 Florida "voteRead More…
Lessons: Likely Voter Models & Bias
On Wednesday morning after the election, still a bit groggy, I cobbled together a quick table of the final surveys released by the major national polRead More…
About Those Tracking Surveys
So admit it. At least once a day, possibly more often, you’ve been checking in on the various rolling-average tracking surveys. Most of us are. IfRead More…
NYT: Why Can’t Pollsters Agree?
As a companion piece to their poll story, the New York Times’ Jim Rutenberg weighs in this morning on why the polls disagree. It touches on much of wRead More…
Poll of Polls
Alert reader JM tipped me off to the fact that Bill Schneider has reprised his “poll of polls” summary on CNN’s Inside Politics. According to the traRead More…
Why are polls showing contradictory results?
In a sense, every post on this site seeks to answer the question of why polls seem contradictory. A good place to start is with the following three pRead More…