Comments on: The Note: Curb Your Enthusiasm Gap

By: Sammy Finkelman

Sammy Finkelman — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:19:12 +0000

I think there;s one key point about the \”enthusiasm gap\” that’s being lost. It turned up in the polls during the Presidential primary season, for instance in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.
It’s this:
When there is an enthusiasm gap, it’s more accentuated in the POLLS, than it is in the POLLING BOOTH.
People become much less reluctant to answer polls when they are enthusiastic, but this gap, where there is a difference in participation that correlates with whom you plan to vote for, although it still exists for voting itself, is not as strong for voting, as it is for answering polls.
What really would help is to know the refusal rate of a poll and how that might have changed.
The most reliable polls might be ones that were mostly about other things and only threw in a few political questions at the end. A poll of likely voters taken from THAT sort of poll, might be more accurate.
Do you know what polls fit into this category?
(where the political questions are an aside at the end)

By: Downwithsocialism

Downwithsocialism — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:15:45 +0000

I want to know what is Andrew Cuomo afraid of that he won’t attend a second debate with Carl Paladino?

By: Paulie

Paulie — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:04:04 +0000

Yes its all Glen Becks fault LOL.

By: pamp205

pamp205 — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:46:15 +0000

“MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election”. Republicans selling out America. Go to the article and see how democracy is dying – one million at a time.