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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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A Closer Look at "Values Voters"
Today’s “values voters” conference in Washington is putting political attention back on evangelical white Protestants and their role in the Republican presidential contest. Here's a look at the data. As we’ve reported, given his position on abortion and gay civil...
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October 19, 2007 in 2008 Primaries, Social Issues | Permalink | User Comments (3)
Battle of the Sexes, News of the Day
Clinton strategist Mark Penn fired an early volley in the battle of the sexes this morning, boasting at a breakfast with reporters that in a general election Hillary Clinton would win 24 percent of Republican women. Is that a shot...
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October 18, 2007 in 2008 Primaries | Permalink | User Comments (0)
President Bush: Where He's At
For internal guidance at ABC News we regularly summarize poll results related to breaking news events, such as the president’s news conference this morning. Here's today’s summary, running down the president’s ratings – a handy sketch of where he’s at....
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October 17, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (0)
Al Gore's Campaign: Turning up the Heat
For a guy committed to combating climate change, Al Gore’s plans for his prizewinnings make good sense. Gore this morning said he’ll donate his share of the Nobel Peace Prize to an outfit “devoted to changing public opinion in the...
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October 12, 2007 in Environment and Energy | Permalink | User Comments (2)
