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Public Opinion Research Blog: May 2011
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Monday, May 2, 2011. CLIMATE: Prominent EPA skeptic prepares to vote against anti-agency measure (04/06/2011). Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter. His efforts to delay implementation of U.S. EPA's climate change rules may not have endeared Sen. Jay Rockefeller to environmentalists. But the West Virginia Democrat is the only member of his state's congressional delegation who is set to vote against permanently scrapping EPA's power to limit carbon. The agency is resented in the Mountain State not only for proposi...
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Public Opinion Research Blog: June 2009
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Monday, June 29, 2009. Mountaintop Mining and Public Opinion in West Virginia. The last few weeks have seen the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Environmental and Public Works hold hearings to examine mountaintop removal and a Hollywood actress and other environmental activists arrested while protesting a mine site in Southern West Virginia. As a result, the subject of coal mining and mountaintop mining are receiving significant media attention. Or via email mark@markblankenship.com. Tuesday, June 16, 2009.
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Public Opinion Research Blog: CLIMATE: Prominent EPA skeptic prepares to vote against anti-agency measure (04/06/2011)
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Monday, May 2, 2011. CLIMATE: Prominent EPA skeptic prepares to vote against anti-agency measure (04/06/2011). Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter. His efforts to delay implementation of U.S. EPA's climate change rules may not have endeared Sen. Jay Rockefeller to environmentalists. But the West Virginia Democrat is the only member of his state's congressional delegation who is set to vote against permanently scrapping EPA's power to limit carbon. The agency is resented in the Mountain State not only for proposi...
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Public Opinion Research Blog: Do Cell Phones Affect Telephone Surveys?
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Thursday, June 11, 2009. Do Cell Phones Affect Telephone Surveys? At MBE, our clients and colleagues frequently ask about the effect so-called "cell phone only" respondents have on traditional telephone survey research. In other words, with more people deciding to use only a cell phone and giving up their land line based telephone, does the data collected through traditional telephone survey research become less reliable? In fact, there are some government researchers who believe the number of households...
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Public Opinion Research Blog: Real Sampling Error
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011. That question has many possible answers. Professor Cliff Zukin of Rutgers University published an excellent article for the American Association of Public Opinion Research in 2004 titled. Sources of Variation in Published Election Polling: A Primer. This article goes on in some detail to discuss all the variables which can cause opinion surveys to have much different results. The entire article can be found at www.aapor.org. Or follow us on twitter @MCBlankenship.
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Public Opinion Research Blog: April 2011
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011. That question has many possible answers. Professor Cliff Zukin of Rutgers University published an excellent article for the American Association of Public Opinion Research in 2004 titled. Sources of Variation in Published Election Polling: A Primer. This article goes on in some detail to discuss all the variables which can cause opinion surveys to have much different results. The entire article can be found at www.aapor.org. Or follow us on twitter @MCBlankenship.
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Public Opinion Research Blog: Judicial Reform and Public Opinion in West Virginia
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Judicial Reform and Public Opinion in West Virginia. In West Virginia, Governor Manchin. States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will serve as honorary chairwoman of the governor's special commission. On the state court system. The commission will examine issues ranging from the partisan election of judges to the creation of a intermediate appellate court. The commission is to provide Governor Manchin. With its report in November of this year. In September of 2008 MBE.
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Public Opinion Research Blog: July 2010
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Voters are deeply concerned about the economy. The components of the economy which concern them most are jobs followed (not necessarily in order) by government. This is not to imply other issues are not important. Taxes, global warming, terrorism, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, are all important issues to varying degrees. But when you really want to understand what issues are driving voter opinion, look no further than the economy and its various elements. The country. It see...
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Public Opinion Research Blog: Energy and Politics
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Voters are deeply concerned about the economy. The components of the economy which concern them most are jobs followed (not necessarily in order) by government. This is not to imply other issues are not important. Taxes, global warming, terrorism, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, are all important issues to varying degrees. But when you really want to understand what issues are driving voter opinion, look no further than the economy and its various elements. The country. It see...
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