On Polls - Good Bad and Ugly From A Campaign Warrior - Part 1, What Real Pollsters Do

Self | 10/25/12 | Self

[RobinOfKingston]

Please ping me to subsequent parts.

Thank you.

[TomEwall]

What published polls do you think are worth paying attention to?

[Jet Jaguar]

Poll ping. Interesting read.

[Jet Jaguar]

Please add me to the Part II list.

[VRWCer]

Great analysis! Would love a ping for part 2 :-)

[VRWCer]

Great analysis! Would love a ping for part 2 :-)

[1035rep]

Good information, thank you. I look forward to reading part II.

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks a lot, and I’d love to read further installments. This is really appreciated and helpful.

I just had a trusting neophyte friend, who sincerely, but inaccurately, believes I’m knowledgeable about all things political ask me about whether she should be worried about the current polling numbers for Romney; does he have a real chance. I was able to give her a bit about over/under sampling, the trending vs spot numbers, comparisons to previous races, and so forth; but there’s too much I don’t know myself.

[Lacey2]

"Private C&E pollsters have a few things in common that they believe in – no robo calls, live interviews only,..."

Rasmussen uses robo calls and his results are consistently at the top. In fact he was the most accurate in 2008 and I believe in 2004 as well.

[carton253]

Please ping me when you do part II. It helped me tremendously.

[ApplegateRanch]

Should have added a request for pings to future installments. Thanks.

[Big Giant Head]

Put me on your ping list also, please! Thanky for your work here.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Ping request.

[HannibalHamlinJr]

Thanks flack - non FR friends also thanking me for forwarding to them.

[kevkrom]

Very interesting, and please do add me to the ping list for Part II.

[arthurus]

I should like to get pinged to Part II also. thanks.

[bert]

Great post..... thanks for your effort

[Gvl_M3]

Great article.

Please add me to the part II ping list.

[Rodger Schultz]

This is an outstanding post. Keep up the good work and like Mark Finkelstein you’ll be a rock star.

[MortMan]

I’d like to read part 2, as well.