tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post657551833256993685..comments2024-03-26T14:01:36.240-05:00Comments on Public Policy Polling: Obama over the last three monthsTom Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06545052616714485196noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-78772704348063479122011-03-14T21:51:21.910-05:002011-03-14T21:51:21.910-05:00Third Anon comment:
We try to avoid big paragraph...Third Anon comment:<br /><br />We try to avoid big paragraphs like that with automated polling. Harder to keep people's attentions. It's a valid idea, and something campaigns themselves do exhaustively. Another negative to the idea is that campaigns are not necessarily won or lost on qualities on paper. It's a lot about personality and, frankly, looks.<br /><br />You will, however, see something about candidate qualities in a briefer form when we release our national primary results tomorrow.Dustin Ingallshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00599131416393266722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-39917615358685063962011-03-13T22:59:46.411-05:002011-03-13T22:59:46.411-05:00Could you please poll Michigan soon next? Specific...Could you please poll Michigan soon next? Specifically, poll Snyder approval, thoughts on his budget plan and his methods, support or lack thereof for recall, and whether they felt that he was governing with the platform he campaigned on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-90240660013602607622011-03-12T17:22:09.864-05:002011-03-12T17:22:09.864-05:00Not related specifically to this comment, but I wa...Not related specifically to this comment, but I was wondering the next time you did a national/Iowa/NH poll, you might poll the Republican primary in a different format to test viability of the 'dark horse' candidates. <br /><br />Specifically, there was a Zogby poll of NH D/R presidential primaries in 2006 that listed a brief description with positives and negatives of each possible candidate without mentioning their name. All the actual copies of full descriptions/results seem to be down by now, but I found an example description of Tom Tancrendo:<br /><br />"Candidate J is a four-term Congressman from a swing state in the Midwest. Candidate J is best known of being an outspoken critic of illegal immigration. He has also been highly critical of the Bush administration's guest worker plan. Before coming to Congress, Candidate J was a Department of Education official under Reagan and George H.W. Bush and was president of a conservative think tank."<br /><br />The idea is that you read brief descriptions of each candidate without mentioning their name and ask how much they would consider voting for that person - so the results tell you which candidates might be really viable, since the Republican frontrunners are relatively weak.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-50643028268233742392011-03-12T10:30:52.135-05:002011-03-12T10:30:52.135-05:00And I don't think Huckabee is actually going t...And I don't think Huckabee is actually going to run... nor Palin. This disturbs me somewhat because it opens the door more for some other Republican who may be more electable... but it also opens up the chance for Newt Gingrich to win the nomination (as the anti-Romney vote has nowhere else to go) and that would be pretty sweet. Gingrich would get destroyed by Obama.Johnsonhttp://www.newyorkhoteldeals.usnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-91675720418894578072011-03-12T08:11:30.254-05:002011-03-12T08:11:30.254-05:00I didn't think Palin could get anymore unpopul...I didn't think Palin could get anymore unpopular. She has no future in politics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com