When we dig into one recent poll on President Trump's impeachment, we find a lot more than what made headlines.
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Majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents say primary goal of impeachment inquiry is to “politically damage Donald Trump’s presidency and his reelection.” (CBS poll)
The following is an excerpt from my news analysis at The Hill. Ever since his inauguration, President Trump’s political opponents have been pushing to impeach him. They just hadn’t found the right excuse. In other words, they knew where they wanted to end up but they just hadn’t found the right vehicle to drive them […]
Campaign 2020... and a trip down short-term memory lane
The following is an excerpt from an article in The Hill As the presidential battle among Democrats heats up, there are new polls and predictions every day as to how it will turn out. A recent Marquette University Law poll finds both former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would beat President […]
When polls are used to shape rather than measure public opinion
The following is an excerpt of my latest article in The Hill. From what I can tell, pollsters are generally fairly stick-to-the-facts folks. They deal in facts and statistics. But there’s something important to remember. They have clients. Their clients are often news organizations. These news organizations, not polling experts, are the ones that come […]
Polls: Keeping it real
As we move into the new presidential election season, we explore what went wrong last time and whether the polling industry is making a big correction for 2020. Watch the Full Measure report below by clicking the image or, if the image doesn't show up, just click this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AU4J32zvFw
Vaccines and autism?
For years, the government, medical establishment and vaccine industry have insisted that any science linking vaccines to autism is not to be believed. But what if the government's own pro-vaccine medical expert, who helped defend vaccines in federal vaccine court, privately told the government that vaccines can cause autism, after all? And what if the […]
Donald’s Duck: 7 Reasons Why Nothing Sticks to Teflon Trump
From the moment Donald Trump entered the presidential race, the news media and pundits predicted his political demise. Each time his poll numbers went up instead of down, they rationalized it in irrational ways. For example, the news was flooded with Trump’s supposed missteps and guffaws. But when his poll numbers went up instead of […]
