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Raising the Debt Ceiling: a Nation Divided, or Is It Just the Polls?
Polls have not done a good job of communicating public opinion in the debt ceiling debate. In fact, they made a bad situation worse. Creating the perception of a divided public The polls would have you believe that half of America … Continue reading
Do Polls Work?
In an article posted on June 17, 2011 on the iPolitics website, Frank Graves, head of the polling firm EKOS , attempted to explain why his final poll failed so badly in predicting the Conservative majority in the 2011 Federal … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011 Election polls, accuracy, Bloc Québecois, Canadian Federal Election, Conservative majority, Democratic bias, false narrative, Harry Reid, Jack Layton, Liberals, media influence, NDP wave, partisan polling, poll predictions, public opinion, Republican bias, Spiral of Silence
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