From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
Carrol Cox wrote:
>I don't think it's worthwhile arguing over the
accuracy or inaccuracy
of
>polls, in general or of particular polls.
>
>What needs analysis is the _meaning_ of polls in
general, within a
given
>perspective.
I'm going to be interviewing Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll, on my radio show on Thursday. Suggestions for questions are welcome.
Doug
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"Describe the KINDS of questions you have edited out of the various polls which you have had Gallop pollsters conduct: specifically, ones concerning the economy, the war and the government over the past four years."
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