Skip to content
Monday, March 16, 2026

MysteryPollster

Demystifying the art and science of pre-election polling – By Mark Blumenthal

Menu
  • Home
  • Home
  • Legacy blog posts
  • Page 39

Category: Legacy blog posts

Housekeeping: Extended Posts?

October 7, 2004October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal27 Comments on Housekeeping: Extended Posts?

As most of you have probably noticed, I have started using the “extended post” feature in the blogging software to continue longer posts on a jump pagRead More…

Why & How Pollsters Weight, Part II

October 7, 2004October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal17 Comments on Why & How Pollsters Weight, Part II

In my last post on party identification, I promised to turn next to pollsters who weight by party. I’d like to finish up this thread with a discussioRead More…

Veep Debate

October 6, 2004October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal9 Comments on Veep Debate

A quick take on the post debate polling. Andrew Sullivan (who kindly introduced many of you to this blog – thank you Andrew) gets it basically righRead More…

A Personal Note

October 5, 2004October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal15 Comments on A Personal Note

I hesitate to discuss personal matters here, but I want to explain the lack of posts today: Unfortunately, my nearly two-year old daughter, who had bRead More…

New Format & URL

October 4, 2004October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal3 Comments on New Format & URL

First, if you have visited the site before, you will notice some obvious changes, hopefully for the better. With a life saving consulting assist fromRead More…

The Incumbent Rule

October 3, 2004October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal44 Comments on The Incumbent Rule

In discussing recent poll results, I said last week that I tend to focus most on President Bush’s job rating and percentage of the vote (which tend toRead More…

The Newsweek Poll

October 3, 2004October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal8 Comments on The Newsweek Poll

Newsweek Magazine released a survey last night, “the first national telephone poll using a fresh sample” of all registered voters nationally since TRead More…

Democracy Corps on Debates

October 1, 2004October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal2 Comments on Democracy Corps on Debates

Just a quick update about another before-and-after debate poll conducted online last night by Knowledge Networks, this one on behalf of Democratic polRead More…

Off Topic: Fox News Hacked?

October 1, 2004October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal3 Comments on Off Topic: Fox News Hacked?

A break from polling for a moment.
Josh Marshall has been posting this afternoon (here, here and here) about a mysterious story about John Kerry that Read More…

The First Debate: Who Won?

October 1, 2004October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal2 Comments on The First Debate: Who Won?

Murphy’s Law might explain why a week after starting a blog, my home DSL and phone service has been out for three days running (perhaps that should beRead More…

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Recent Posts

  • Polling Has Changed. The Way We Read (And Sometimes Misread) It Has Not.
  • Impeachment Update: No Signs of Non-Response Error
  • Gelman: Nonresponse Not So Rare
  • MysteryPollster is Back!
  • Another ‘Phantom Swing’? Investigating Differential Nonresponse in 2018

Archives (Mostly Old!)

Legacy Categories (2004-2006)

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
BlogMagazine | Theme: BlogMagazine by Dinesh Ghimire.