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- These eleven articles, originally published on iPolitics, will be reposted on this blog with section headings consistent with the earlier posts. In the meantime you can access the complete articles by clicking on the titles. Thanks for your patience.
- Pollsters use leading questions to manipulate the uninformed
- Searching for Accuracy in Election Predictions: More Regulation of Polls or More Competition?
- Can media be trusted to accurately report polls?
- Raising the Debt Ceiling: a Nation Divided, or Is It Just the Polls?
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How Polls Divided Americans on Obama’s Health Care Reforms
In theory, polls on the Obama health care reforms were supposed to measure public attitudes. In fact, they helped create them. How did this happen? What were these polling fictions? How did the tail end up wagging the dog? The … Continue reading