Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Wolves fans were ready for McHale to go

The Associated Press is reporting that after 15 years Kevin McHale's time with the Minnesota Timberwolves is up.

We did a statewide poll on this issue in Minnesota back in April, and found that only 46% of people describing themselves as fans of the team wanted to see McHale return as coach.

While this has reached resolution the main reason we were conducting the poll- to see what voters in the state thought about the Al Franken/Norm Coleman standoff- sure has not!

I'll be interested to see if fan reaction stories to McHale's departure reflect what we found scientifically- this is certainly a field where anecdotes and easily rigged media outlet website polls drive the conventional wisdom about public opinion a lot more often than formal surveys.

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