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  • February 22, 2019

Environmentalists Are Awful Voters

September 29, 2016 By gmoke 2 Comments

Nathaniel Stinnett launched the Environmental Voter Project (http://environmentalvoter.org) in 2015 with the mission of “identifying inactive environmentalists and then turning them into consistent activists and voters.” He spoke on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ecology, environment, polling, tufts, voting

Latest WBUR poll is good news for marijuana reformers

September 13, 2016 By SamTracy 159 Comments

WBUR and MassINC released a poll today, showcasing voter attitudes about the various ballot questions to be voted on in November. The top-line results have been getting a lot of attention, with Yes on 4 garnering 50% to the No camp's 45%, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: election 2016, marijuana, marijuana legalization, massinc, polling, Question 4, wbur

Pollster Peter Hart at Harvard 2/3/15

February 3, 2015 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Pollster Peter Hart spoke at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on February 3, 2015 to a small group of people in the regular Tuesday noon conversation. He brought slides from the recent NBC/WallStreetJournal poll done just prior to State of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2016 Presidential Race, hillary-clinton, jeb-bush, Peter Hart, polling, rand-paul

We Will Be Watching: Victory for the DREAM Act

September 21, 2010 By kyledeb 10 Comments

If you haven't heard about the DREAM Act yet I wouldn't be surprised.  The media has largely been focused on the train wreck that is Christine O'Donnell's campaign.  But the mainstream media is missing out on one of the most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: business, christine-odonnell, dadt, democrat, dream-act, education, facebook, guatemala, harry-reid, illegal, immigrant, immigration, lady-gaga, lgbt, migrant, migrant-youth, migration, military, millenial, national-defense-authorization-act, polling, republican, spanish, twitter, undocumented, youth

Did our pollster cheat us?

June 29, 2010 By David 27 Comments

This, published by Markos at Daily Kos, is quite worrisome. I have just published a report by three statistics wizards showing, quite convincingly, that the weekly Research 2000 State of the Nation poll we ran the past year and a half was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bmg, polling

Public overwhelmingly supports limiting carbon emissions

June 28, 2010 By Charley on the MTA 9 Comments

Well, so sometimes you hear that people don't really believe in global warming, or that it's not their first priority, or whatever. But what is absolutely plain as day is that they support controlling greenhouse gas emissions. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 350, climate-change, environment, global-warming, polling, scott-brown

Small Business Support for Clean Energy A Key to 2010 Elections?

June 25, 2010 By nrdc-action-fund Leave a Comment

Yesterday’s Democratic Senate caucus meeting – combined with Majority Leader Reid’s push on this issue, combined with President Obama’s leadership, combined with a clear demand by the public for action … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-energy, climate, nrdc-action-fund, polling, small-business

The Columnist, the Pollster, and Me

April 16, 2010 By gmoke 2 Comments

Porter asked about deficits, of course, and Broder wondered whether the prospective savings from reform would show up and how soon.  Rasmussen answered some questions and had some colloquy with Broder and others over polling numbers. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: david-broder, economics, health-care, media, polling, scott-rasmussen, t.-r.-reid

Will Illinois Senate Race Follow MA Pattern? Heed Rasmussen.

February 4, 2010 By hlpeary 1 Comment

Rasmussen polling (who brought Massachusetts the now infamous "Brown is within single digits poll") today is reporting on the Illinois US Senate race:    Illinois Senate: Kirk 46%, Giannoulias 40% Republican Mark Kirk holds a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: brown, polling, senate-race

Wonk Post for Sweat-Equity Folk

January 27, 2010 By paulsimmons Leave a Comment

James Carville's shop just put out polling and comprehensive strategy memoranda. All polling, analysis, and suggested responses, are downloadable in pdf format. IMHO, a good and dispassonate analysis of the current populist revolt that led … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: field, message, polling, populism

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