polling complications
(cross posted from the lbo-talk listserv) Interesting thread on the AAPOR website: there's some anxiety that presidential polling this year is seriously problematic. Phone polls undersample young...
View ArticleIMPORTANT- ACTION SEPT 1 ON FREEDOM FROM DEBT CAMPAIGN
Jubilee USA Network Countdown to Freedom from Debt Campaign On September 1st, Call the White House and U.S. Treasury & Ask the Administration to Support Full Debt Cancellation for Impoverished...
View ArticleTake Heart: Peter Jennings Sums It Perfectly
ABC's Peter Jennings, at the conclusion of Tuesday night's convention coverage: "The one thing we'll leave you with tonight is what Giuliani said last night. He, being a great New York Yankees fan,...
View ArticleZell's original draft
from Josh Marshall's TPM http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/"Our tribe will attack their tribe. And then we will kill their men, make their livestock our own and take their women to mate."
View ArticleSome Perspective: Ruy Teixeira on Pennsylvania and RVs
September 1, 2004 So What's Going on in Pennsylvania? There's been a shocking amount of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in Democratic circles considering that most polls still show Kerry...
View ArticleMichael Moore on Why Dems Shouldn't Be Scared
September 3rd, 2004 12:28 am Why Democrats shouldn't be scared - By Michael Moore By Michael Moore / USA Today NEW YORK -- If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times from discouraged...
View ArticleSurprise Surprise - A Hidden Swing Vote: Evangelicals
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/04/opinion/04greeley.html OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR A Hidden Swing Vote: Evangelicals By MICHAEL HOUT and ANDREW M. GREELEY Published: September 4, 2004 The press has made a big...
View ArticleBuah Speech Fails to Sway Undecideds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60447-2004Sep3.html Speech Fails to Sway These Undecideds By Peter Slevin and Jonathan Finer Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, September 4, 2004;...
View ArticleSen. Graham: Bush Blocked Investigation Into Saudi Link with 9/11
"It was as if the president's loyalty lay more with Saudi Arabia than with America's safety." Frank Davies Knight Ridder Newspapers Sept. 5, 2004 12:00 AM WASHINGTON - Two of the Sept. 11, 2001,...
View ArticleNEW MEME: THE PRESIDENT'S (DIS)LOYALTY
"It was as if the president's loyalty lay more with Saudi Arabia than with America's safety." (from Graham's book) http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/5/186/07123 We should definitely push this as a...
View ArticlePop Culture and the Election w/Poll
A number of popular culture phenomena/events/activities have the potential to effect the election. Which do you think will have the biggest effect and why ?
View ArticleTeixeira: Kerry Widens Lead in Battleground States!
September 7, 2004 Kerry Widens Lead in Battleground States! Now that's a headline you're not likely to see in the mainstream media, consumed as they are with the storyline du jour about Bush's Big Mo'...
View ArticleMedical Diagnosis of Bush: Presenile Dementia
(from a letter in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly) When George Meets John James Fallows's description of John Kerry's debating skills ("When George Meets John," July/August Atlantic) was...
View ArticleHow Big Is Kerry's Cushion ?
We know: 1 Undecideds break about 70-30 for the challenger 2 Many African-Americans and Latinos don't repond to pollsters (for good historical reasons) 2a These two groups will go OVERWHELMINGLY for...
View ArticleGreat News: Curtis Gans and Turnout
Curtis Gans -- the oft-quoted 'dean' of experts of the American electorate (he's Director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate)-- was on c-span today. Among other things, he said:...
View ArticleMerrill Lynch: Bush's Lead Ephemeral
thanks to Doug Henwood at lbo-talk, http://tinyurl.com/72axy, for the following:'From today's Merrill Lynch Morning Market Memo - not new news, really, but the source is interesting: The President's...
View ArticleWhy the Race Is Closer Than People Think
PLEASE read this article by Ruy Teixeira, if you are confused about all the different poll results.http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/archives/000663.php Is Bush ahead by a...
View ArticleHarris: Bush at Lowest Level of His Presidency
I don't know if this has been reported here before (forgive me if it has), but this is excellent news:President Bush's Ratings Slip to Lowest Level of His Presidency, According to Latest Harris...
View ArticleJeopardy: What are Bush-Men ?
cross-posted from the lbo-talk mailing list: So on tonight's episode of Jeopardy (Tournament of Champions this week and next, guaranteed to make you think you've learned next to diddley squat over the...
View ArticleEssential Kerry Theme: Accountability
A theme that Kerry needs to articulate constantly is accountability/responsibility (the two words, although synonyms have varying connotations, and invoke somewhat different imagery -- I'd like to hear...
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