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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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Hold on Groves: Mystery Hour at the Senate


Three weeks after Robert M. Groves sailed through his confirmation hearing to lead the U.S. Census Bureau, a Republican U.S. senator has placed the nomination on hold. As for who and why, it’s Mystery Hour at the U.S. Senate. A...

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June 4, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (9)

"Medical Bankruptcies:" a Data Update


The academic group that put out a much-covered and deservedly much-debated study on so-called "medical bankruptcies" a few years ago has released an update today. In some important ways it improves on the earlier version, which I’ve blogged about before....

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June 4, 2009 in Problem Polls | Permalink | User Comments (12)