April

Quick. Thirty-two degrees. Hot or cold? It depends. In Fahrenheit, it’s literally freezing; in Celsius it’s sweltering. One hundred dollars. A lot of money or a little? A veritable fortune…

The Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain are not attacks on free enterprise, capitalism or even private equity. Capitalism did not require Bain to issue debt that…

Independent should never be confused with accurate. A poll conducted by North Dakota’s Forum of Fargo-Moorhead is likely independent, as its purveyors claim, but fatally, indeed laughably, flawed. First rule…

I hate questions asking whether people are “more or less likely to vote” for a candidate based on some factor. I admit to using them, but rarely, and under some…

It’s the polling story my college roommates and I have retold for, dare I say it, decades. Interviewers for the student newspaper knocked on our door asking, among other questions,…

It’s almost embarrassing. Polls are supposed to accurately measure attitudes, but on any given day they seem to meander randomly, leaving readers with an inexplicably inconsistent portrait of the political…

In a country seemingly dominated by partisan polarization on everything from the cause of hurricanes to the state of the economy, it’s hard to find issues, outside of motherhood and…

A couple weeks ago, two of the nation’s most respected polls caused quite a kerfuffle. It started with the ABC/Washington Post poll, which found President Obama’s approval rating tumbling from…