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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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Gingrich as Speaker: Remembering When
Newt Gingrich’s long flirtation with a run for president – this week he’s promoting an “American Solutions” agenda and appearing Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”– warrants a look at public opinion during his tenure as House speaker....
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September 28, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (1)
The Use and Misuse of Polls
I made the following comments last week (Sept. 20) at the annual conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research in Berlin – in part commenting on a keynote address by the sociologist Kurt Lang, and also reflecting on...
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September 24, 2007 in Polling Methods | Permalink | User Comments (3)
Polling in Iraq: The Unsung Heroes
(I posted the following item on the WorldNewser blog site last March. With our latest Iraq poll just out today, it's again worth celebrating the courageous field workers behind these surveys. Without them our independent understanding of public opinion in...
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September 10, 2007 in International Polls | Permalink | User Comments (4)
