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A Run at the Latest Data from ABC's Poobah of Polling, Gary Langer

Gary Langer is director of polling at ABC News, where he's covered the beat of public opinion for nearly 20 years - conducting and analyzing ABC News polls, evaluating data from other sources and setting the news division's standards for poll reporting. Langer has won two Emmy awards for ABC's reporting of public opinion polls in Iraq, and The Numbers blog was honored this year as winner of the 2008 Iowa Gallup Award for Excellent Journalism Using Polls.

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Online Ballots: Let the Clicker Beware


Feathers have been flying lately about a couple of online ballots posted on ABCNews.com after the recent ABC-sponsored presidential debates in Iowa. The alleged “winners,” if you choose to buy into these compilations of clicks, were Republican Ron Paul and...

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August 28, 2007 in Polling Methods, Problem Polls | Permalink | User Comments (29)

Gonzales and the Base


While the controversy that today ended Alberto Gonzales’ tenure as attorney general has not been front and center of public concerns, he’s hardly been popular – perhaps most tellingly, lacking a strong partisan base that might otherwise have shored him...

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August 27, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

Polling in Iowa: To List, or Not To List


Our poll on the presidential race in Iowa is one of those in which as much thinking went into the sample design as the data analysis. And in the end, in climbing this particular hill, it’s fair to say we...

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August 3, 2007 in 2008 Primaries, Polling Methods | Permalink | User Comments (0)