Discussing Party ID Sampling Like its 2004

For those with sincere interest in the sampling issue, I would recommend Mark Blumenthal’s post from September 23, 2004:  Weighting by Party.

This post is useful because it address issues under discussion today, but may perhaps be more persuasive for some because a) it was written eight years ago, and therefore lacks the political context of contemporary discussions, and b) it is about a situation in which some Democrats were complaining that the polls were over-sampling Republicans.

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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter

Comments

  1. Excellent find, I’d forgotten about Mystery Pollster

  2. @Doug Mataconis: Gracias.

  3. Just nutha' ig'rant cracker says:

    But, but…Kenya…anti-colonialist… lame stream media…the polls are rigged..

  4. jukeboxgrad says:

    I would recommend Mark Blumenthal’s post from September 23, 2004: Weighting by Party.

    That article goes well with Blumenthal’s article from a couple of days ago, that was just cited by Michael Reynolds here.

    In the first sentence of his new article, Blumenthal cites his old article.