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E-Answers: Dancing with the Deficit

By Public Opinion Strategies

President Obama and Democrats in Congress have plunged into a full fox trot with Keynesian economics, swooping past all records of deficit spending in an attempt to lift the U.S. economy. While Democratic voters have generally swooned over the jitterbug pace at which the Administration and Congress has blown through budget barriers, they may be [...]

AAPOR Releases Study Of Presidential Primary Polling

By Glen Bolger

I served on an Ad Hoc Committee of the American Association for Public Opinion Research that was formed in response to the controversy over the public polls in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.  The Committee’s report was released today.  Michael Traugott of the University of Michigan chaired the committee, and did yeoman’s work keeping the [...]

Think you’ve been ‘push polled’? Maybe not

By Neil Newhouse

(This article was originally published by Politico.com on November 19, 2007)
As recent reports about “push polling” on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s religious affiliation make their way through the newspapers and the blogosphere, I thought it might be helpful to provide a brief pollster’s guide to what constitutes a push poll and what doesn’t.
Push polls [...]