When is a Poll Really a Poll?
Reader PW emailed yesterday with a question about a poll that appeared on Tuesday in the blogosphere. "Is there anything you can quickly glRead More…
Category: Legacy blog posts
One America
Not quite two weeks ago, I discussed what public opinion polls had to say about how Americans reacted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In a widely rRead More…
Iraq the Vote: Epilogue
A few quick follow-up thoughts on the work of Duke academics Peter Feaver, Christopher Gelpi and Jason Reifler, that I commented on last week. Read More…
Iraq the Vote 2: CBS Takes up the Challenge
A quick update on yesterday’s "Iraq the Vote" post. Kathy Frankovic, polling director for CBS News, emails with two questions they askRead More…
Iraq the Vote
A small world story: On the front page of today’s Washington Post, Peter Baker and Dan Balz write about the influence of "an extensivRead More…
Liberals and 9/11 – Update
A quick update on Friday’s post on what polls had to say about how liberal Americans reacted to 9/11. In their weekly column, The Nation’s PulseRead More…
A Growing Politicization
In the context of the exit poll debate last year, MP pointed to a Pew Research Center study showing that Republicans perceived greater bias in news mRead More…
How Did Liberals React to 9/11?
By now most of MP’s readers have presumably heard the flap over White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove’s speech on Wednesday that attacked the aRead 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…