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The poll is from Public Policy Polling, which "polls only for Democratic and progressive campaigns and organizations on a private basis" and has a history of qu
by enoch_r 11y ago
The poll is from Public Policy Polling, which "polls only for Democratic and progressive campaigns and organizations on a private basis" and has a history of questionable methodology (e.g. changing the predicted electoral demographics to give Obama a steady lead).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Polling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_Polling
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/heres-proof-some-pollsters-are-putting-a-thumb-on-the-scale/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/heres-proof-some-pollst...
An equivalent poll question might ask environmentalists whether they would support regulating the amount of dihydrogen monoxide that corporations could expel into the water supply. This poll is, I think, pretty obviously designed to get the sort of "gotcha!" response that a progressive campaign would be looking for.
- dawnbreez 11y agoThe wikipedia article seems to be biased toward PPP, which might be due to a damage control edit.