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Originally Posted by Elphaba
This contradiction in internal consistancy might be due to any number of factors. Politico, are you able to obtain the research protocols used in this poll? I am particularly interested in how the population was sampled.
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I don't have a whole lot more information than I provided. The actual questionaire is viewable here. But pretty much all it says is that the sample was of 800 likely voters. As you can see from the polling information on RealClearPolitics, it looks like the sample for POS was representative in terms of their favorable/unfavorable presidential numbers. And again, the sample seems representative of the RealClearPolitics numbers on whether the country is heading in the right/wrong direction.
It's all well and good to be skeptical of poll information, but I see no particular reason to doubt these findings. If these likely voters are closely aligned with the public at large on issues like presidential approval and right/wrong national direction, what reasons would we have for thinking that their opinions on more specific war policy issues would be non-representative?
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