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…
Category: Polls in the News
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…
Post/ABC Poll Bites Back
Earlier this week, I started a discussion of the notion of using demographic and attitudinal data as “diagnostic” measures to assess political surveyRead More…
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…
The Pew Typology
While I was focused on the AAPOR conference, I missed the release two weeks ago by the Pew Research Center of their massive new "Typology" sRead More…
UK Polls: Anthony Wells
Unfortunately, I’m at least a week late with this recommendation, but perhaps for true political polling junkies it will be better late than never.&nbRead More…
ABC/Washington Post on Judicial Nominees
The conservative wing of the blogosphere took great exception yesterday to the latest survey from the Washington Post and ABC News that gave front paRead More…
Schiavo: The Return of Professor M
I thought that in light of the interest in the last post on the recent Schiavo polls that it would be good to take a step back from the microanalysis Read More…
Schiavo “Push Poll?”
[3/24 – 2:45 p.m. EST – posted additional updates below]
Another day, another polling controversy. The latest involves a survey released oRead More…
More on Social Security
There has been quite a bit of polling released in the last few weeks on the Social Security debate. While there is much debate about the conseqRead More…