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September 8, 2009 Anzalone Liszt Research National Polling Summary

civicscience — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:39:50 +0000

Follow this link for this week’s national polling summary from our friends at Anzalone-Liszt Research. Enjoy!

The Future of Polling…some say

civicscience — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:03:05 +0000

Found another article from the Detroit Free Press following up on the comments from Jay Leve at Survey USA. A full link is below but the best comment (at least insofar as it validates CivicScience) is here:

“Leve said he believes the solution will come in the form of unobtrusive Internet polling methods that turn data collection into a sort of game for Web surfers. Respondents will register their vital statistics (age, gender, ZIP code) once with a trusted Internet site they like to visit and make one-click responses to an ever-changing array of polling questions whenever they feel like it.”

Amen brother.

Full article here: http://www.freep.com/article/20090813/COL04/908130454

Is Polling As We Know It Doomed?…

civicscience — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:46:27 +0000

“Cell Phones And An Increasingly Wired World Could Spell The End Of Current Practices, One Pollster Warns”

Mark Blumenthal weighs in on one pollster’s (Jay Leve form SurveyUSA) contention that by the 2012 election cycle phone polling data could very well be irrelevant….hmmm

July 31, 2009 Anzalone Liszt Research National Polling Summary

civicscience — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:48:04 +0000

Follow this link for this week’s national polling summary from our friends at Anzalone-Liszt Research. Enjoy!

John Zogby on how the internet is changing polling

civicscience — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:47:27 +0000

Check out this recent article in Forbes that is John Zogby’s concise arguments as to “How The Internet Has Changed Polling”. It covers a lot of the same points that we’ve been making (and are building our company around).

Bullet points include:

80% of the US population has an internet connection (92% amoung expected voters)
Nearly 20% of households only have cell phones
“landline telephone penetration is where it was in 1963.”

More good news for us

July 17, 2009 Anzalone Liszt Research National Polling Summary

civicscience — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:41:13 +0000

Follow this link for this week’s national polling summary from our friends at Anzalone-Liszt Research. Enjoy!

The Onion’s take on Real-Time Polling

civicscience — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:36:15 +0000

Below is a pretty darn amusing video from the Onion regarding real time polling. Enjoy!

New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time

July 1, 2009 Anzalone Liszt Research National Polling Summary

civicscience — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:51:52 +0000

Follow this link for this week’s national polling summary from our friends at Anzalone-Liszt Research. Enjoy!

US Polling: “Why does anyone pay for this rubbish?”

civicscience — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:36:49 +0000

I found this great blog post (HERE) from the New Republic written last year in the UK. Interesting how our ‘primitive’ polling industry is perceived across the pond. (admittedly, the references to the 08 election are out-dated but you still get the point.)

2010 Hot Seat – Barbara Boxer (D-Ca)

civicscience — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:00:05 +0000

Although Senator Barbara Boxer is a Democratic senator representing one of the most Democratic voting states in the Union, she is considered to be a particularly partisan liberal, and because of that has not been as popular as her fellow Californian, Senator Diane Feinstein (Although she holds the the record for the most popular vote in a statewide contested election in California). She is considered by many to be the personification of the feminist left and is probably the strongest proponent of abortion rights in the Senate; Boxer was fervently opposed to the partial-abortion ban signed into law by President Bush. However, Boxer has been a leading voice in the Senate on issues ranging from environmental issues, health care and gun control, and with the beginning of the 110th Congress, she is the Chairwoman of the Environmental and Public Works Committee which makes her the lead Senator on global warming and carbon emissions legislation and one of the most powerful members of the Senate. The Republican field is slowly starting to materialize but the sole big name considering the race is former Hewlett Packard CEO, Carly Fiorina, a former McCain Presidential campaign economic advisor. This would be her first race.

Senator Boxer has a CivicScience Ideology Score is L71 which places her amongst the most liberal in the Senate. California voted for Barack Obama by a 61.01%-36.95% in 2008 and went for Kerry over Bush by a 54.30%-44.36% margin. The state is one of the most Democratic (but not necessarily more liberal) so at a glance, this should not be a competitive race for Republicans at all, but stranger things have occurred in the California political world: Of the last 42 years, Republicans ran the state for 30 years. Six years ago, Gray Davis became the second governor in American history to be recalled from office; California also consistently has the worst budgetary impasses in the United States;and there is even a growing movement to secede from the Union. Because of the general unpopularity of Republicans in the state, it would take a unique message and massive amounts of spending to counter the natural advantage that Democrats have because of their large voter registration advantage over Republicans. Some Boxer-sponsored legislation include S. 209: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify and extend the credit for alternative motor vehicles, and for other purposes; S. 858: A bill to protect the oceans and Great Lakes, and for other purposes; S. 310: Affordable Care for Women Act which shows her proactivity on issues that matter to two of her biggest constituencies: women and environmentalists.

Got a 2010 election that you’d like to see profiled here? Send suggestions to simon@civicscience.com