Archive for the 'polls' Category
Joe Lieberman Doesn’t Speak For Us
Posted on July 16, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Israel, J Street, Jewish voters, polls | Leave a Comment
Spencer Ackerman writes about a new poll of American Jews conducted by the new(ish) liberal-leaning pro-Israel lobbying organization J Street. The results are hardly surprising to me, but should be a useful reminder to all the clowns who consistently mischaracterize Jewish voters as only caring about- and voting based upon- how much a given candidate [...]
White People Are Dumb
Posted on July 16, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under polls, race | Leave a Comment
A few people are making fun of the New York Times for discovering the shocking news that a single presidential campaign can’t heal a legacy of slavery and discrimination overnight, which is totally fair. Personally, I’m a bit annoyed by one of the poll results contained in the colorful pull-out graph:
Look, even if you think [...]
A Moment For Young Voters
Posted on April 29, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2004 presidential election, 2008 presidential election, John McCain, party identification, polls, young voters | Leave a Comment
Pew has a chart you’ll likely be seeing a lot over the course of the next day or two:
That’s a twenty-five point gap in favor of the Democrats.
Mori Dinauer looks at the 2004 election results and does a rough calculation of how they might have changed if the youth party identification gap had been as [...]
We Always Knew He Could Do It
Posted on April 22, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under George W Bush, polls | Leave a Comment
Huh. I thought we’d already crossed this milestone (how had we not?), but everyone is mentioning it today, so I guess I was wrong.
Anyway, President Douchebag is the most disapproved of president since modern polling began.
Worse than LBJ during Vietnam, worse than Nixon when the Watergate tapes emerged, worse than Ford when he pardoned Nixon, [...]
The Failure Of The Kitchen Sink
Posted on April 16, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, polls | Leave a Comment
Excellent, some confirmation that I (and the like-minded bloggers I tend to read) am far from alone in thinking less of Hillary Clinton following her two months of sliming Barack Obama at every available opportunity.
While Clinton retains a big edge over Obama on experience, public impressions of her have taken a sharply negative turn. Today, [...]
Hunting Down The Reagan Dems
Posted on April 15, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Reagan Democrats, polls | Leave a Comment
Something caught my eye in First Read’s write-up of the latest Quinnipiac Pennsylvania polling results:
Reagan Democrats back Clinton 55%-40%
Hmm. How does Quinnipiac identify “Reagan Democrats”? I clicked through to Quinnipiac’s own version of the data, but they don’t seem to answer my question, either, despite their frequent use of this category of voter.
I suppose “Reagan [...]
Cokie Roberts Is Very Serious
Posted on April 8, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Iraq war, polls | Leave a Comment
Glenn Greenwald has long been fighting the battle of “what the public wants” vs.” what the pundustry claims the public wants”. As such, he highlights an awfully straightforward poll demonstrating yet again that the public wants us to get out of Iraq already, to the tune of 60% to 35%. Here’s Greenwald’s summary, which I [...]
80% Can Definitely Agree That Iron Man Looks Like An Awesome Movie
Posted on April 4, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under polls | Leave a Comment
80% is a lot. If a politician gets 60% of the vote in an election, it’s typically considered a blowout. If someone gets 80%, they’d better be unopposed or running against a guy who just got caught snorting coke off of a hooker’s chest while murdering babies with his bare hands. Don’t forget, as loathed [...]
A Thought On Gallup
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Barack Obama, polls | Leave a Comment
Seems everyone is describing the latest Gallup daily tracking numbers with some variation on, “Obama has a ten point lead, which is his biggest ever.” However, in my opinion, Obama breaking from plurality support to majority support is a more important factoid than the size of his lead. The fact that undecideds have all but [...]
This Had Better Be The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Posted on March 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, polls | Leave a Comment
Wow, the Gallup daily tracking poll has Obama up 50 to 42 over Clinton. As Salon’s War Room (where I saw this) notes, “That is not only his best performance since the Wright controversy blew up but also ties his biggest lead ever in the Gallup poll daily tracking program.”
As I said earlier, the story [...]
Polling The Irrelevant
Posted on March 27, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Constitution, DC, Second Amendment, gun control, polls | Leave a Comment
Gallup proudly displays the following results from their latest poll on gun rights, apropos of the DC case currently in front of the Supreme Court:
Well, OK. But that’s not really the question, is it? Yes, constitutional scholars do debate just how crucial a role should be played by the “well regulated militia” clause in understanding [...]
Another Thought On Democratic “Defectors”
Posted on March 26, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, polls | 1 Comment
I mentioned briefly the Gallup poll getting attention this morning that shows Democratic supporters of one candidate or the other saying that they will vote for McCain if the Democratic candidate they support loses the nomination fight. As I read a few other comments on the results, something occurred to me: It’s actually in the [...]
