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POL 312: Public Opinion: September 2010
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POL 312: Public Opinion. Friday, September 24, 2010. This Week in Public Opinion. A self-proclaimed "independent nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion," posted new numbers on the Bush-era tax cuts and military action in Iraq (and has just slightly more dated info on other issues, as well). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Political Science Professor Tom Holbrook started a new blog, " Politics by the Numbers. With an inaugural post on election polls. The Pew Research Center. Matt Voig...
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POL 312: Public Opinion: Fun with Open-Ended Responses
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POL 312: Public Opinion. Monday, October 18, 2010. Fun with Open-Ended Responses. On a USAToday/Gallup poll conducted last month illustrates how open-ended questions can be put to good use. As the report describes, one item in the poll asked respondents how they would "describe the federal government in one word or phrase." Perhaps unsurprisingly, most offered a negative response. Which contains a 23-page table of respondents' verbatim answers to this prompt. The report also provides this " word cloud.
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POL 312: Public Opinion: Do People View Government as a Threat?
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POL 312: Public Opinion. Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Do People View Government as a Threat? A couple of days ago, Gallup released this report. About Americans' perception of the federal government as an immediate threat to citizens' rights and freedoms. Breaking the population down into partisan subgroups presents a very different picture, as suggested by this graph:. As you can see, the responses included an array of fairly general statements about ideology and overall approaches to government, as well...
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POL 312: Public Opinion: Grammar Matters
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POL 312: Public Opinion. Wednesday, October 27, 2010. While it isn't about polling per se, this Washington Post article. Illustrates how "loaded" terminology can affect the way people respond to prompts for their opinions about political and policy matters. Consider the example of how people respond differently to different terms used to denote a tax on inheritance:. An "estate tax" is more likely to garner popular support than a "death tax," even though they're the same thing. In short, it's not just wh...
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POL 312: Public Opinion: October 2010
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POL 312: Public Opinion. Sunday, October 31, 2010. I just added a new link to the "Public Opinion Resources" list in the right sidebar: Model Politics. Is a new blog where a group of political scientists write about public opinion on current political events and issues. Recent posts there have ranged pretty widely, covering topics like President Obama's popularity. Americans' sense of how many people make over $250,000. And whether people who are openly gay should be allowed to teach in public schools.
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POL 312: Public Opinion: This Week in Public Opinion
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POL 312: Public Opinion. Friday, September 24, 2010. This Week in Public Opinion. A self-proclaimed "independent nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion," posted new numbers on the Bush-era tax cuts and military action in Iraq (and has just slightly more dated info on other issues, as well). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Political Science Professor Tom Holbrook started a new blog, " Politics by the Numbers. With an inaugural post on election polls. The Pew Research Center. Colleen C...
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POL 312: Public Opinion: August 2010
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POL 312: Public Opinion. Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Other Public Opinion Bloggers. In addition to websites containing poll reports and other public opinion data, other people's blog posts might serve as a useful source for your blogging activities: You can follow their links to poll reports you might not have noticed otherwise; you can respond to them (either in their comments or in posts of your own); and you can use many of them as models of good blogging style and etiquette. Which presents some of the ...
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POL 312: Public Opinion: November 2010
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POL 312: Public Opinion. Monday, November 1, 2010. In the spirit of the poll we'll be conducting tomorrow. Here's some information about a couple of other exit polling activities you might want to follow as Election Day wears on:. ABC News will be reporting on exit poll results starting at 5:30 PM. See here. For more information and an explanation about how exit polls work and what they're good for. CNN's Election Center will be covering the exit polls here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). POL 312 Issue Blogs.
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POL 312: Public Opinion: Public Opinion on YouTube
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POL 312: Public Opinion. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Public Opinion on YouTube. Here's the clip we watched last week about race and gender of interviewer effects during the 2008 election season:. Other AAPOR conference interviews that may be of interested include this one, which discusses an experiment the researchers used to estimate social desirability response bias (SDRB), a concept we discussed in class a few weeks ago:. This one, which discusses the use of Second Life to recruit survey respondents:.
