Archives for August 2008

As we’ve noted here, no one is doing an honest public opinion poll. Every

Probably the most-asked question about VotePact is the question of trust. How can you trust someone you’ve met on the internet? Well, we’re using the internet to spread this idea, have set up a FaceBook page and such, but we’re not really suggesting that people meet on the internet. We want people to deal with […]

I’ve been talking to several polling experts, especially sharing my “Why Public Opinion Polls Aren’t” piece. Charles H. Franklin at the University of Wisconsin sent me some interesting polls, especially this one: FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll [June, 2007] Would you consider voting for a presidential candidate you like who is a third party independent candidate? […]

[A shorter version of this piece was originally published by the Dallas Morning News on September 27, 2004.] With all the discussion of polls and the presidential race it may be hard to believe, but I have yet to see a single poll asking whom people want to be president. Virtually every poll has a […]

I’ve been talking to several polling experts. Charles H. Franklin University of Wisconsin when we first talked said that he thought that he’d seen some IRV polls for the presidential race. I told him I’d be most interested to see them. He looked around, couldn’t find them, so apparently no IRV polls have been done. […]

You’d think that if Barack Obama and John McCain backed something, it would dominate the political landscape. But both have spoken out in reforming our voting system to include instant runoff voting, whereby voters rank candidates 1-2-3 rather than only voting for one candidate. And while IRV is making some headway, as documented by the […]