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Lucky bastard, Blumenthal is great. He's on NPR quite a bit, and always has some very interesting things to say.
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Dammit! Now I'm even more mad I missed him. I am FURIOUS I had to miss this weeks speaker, Joe Trippi, author of one of my favorite books (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) and the campaign manager for Dean.
I agree with everything you said. I saw an interesting study about the wording of questions, where the same question asked in even minutely different ways would lead to dramatically different outcomes. Additionally, on the poll set stuff, its so hard to get a solid representation of America. Phone calls to people? Heavily skewed because certain types of people who tend to hold certain beliefs might just hang up. The only people who can forcibly poll you is the government. I was called in by the residence director of my school saying I was part of a randomly chosen group for a census-related poll thing, and if I didn't complete it we would both go to jail. I doubt the jail part, but we were still forced by law. The poll set is such a hard thing to get right, most polls are always going to be skewed to an extent.