The Numbers
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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November
Despite the intense interest, we’re urging our shop not to put too much weight on general election polling just yet; November is a long way off, and the continued bloodletting in the Democratic race makes it a less-than-ideal time to...
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March 31, 2008 in 2008 General Election | Permalink | User Comments (10)
War in Iraq: The Five-Year View
Five years ago next week, 72 percent of Americans supported going to war with Iraq. Six weeks later, with Baghdad in hand and "major combat operations" declared over, 70 percent said it’d been worth it. Today, half as many agree....
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March 14, 2008 in Iraq/Afghanistan Wars | Permalink | User Comments (8)
Iraq and AQ: Suspicion vs. Belief
Today’s Defense Department report concluding that Saddam Hussein wasn’t in cahoots with al Qaeda after all again raises questions about the public’s perceptions in advance of the Iraq war – views that have been widely misanalyzed. It’s become conventional wisdom...
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March 12, 2008 in National Security/Terrorism | Permalink | User Comments (6)
