We Know We're Great. The Question Is Do You Know How Great We Are?
We continually put other pollsters through the ringer, prodding and poking at their methodology all for the greater good. Well now it is our turn. In yesterday's Diageo/Hotline poll we did something a little different than normal. Instead of a nationwide poll of regis. voters, as you know by now, we did a nationwide poll of regis. GOPers (ooohhhh). So what did we classify as a regis. GOPer? We were looking for regis. voters who are (1) strong GOPers, not so strong GOPers, or inidie-lean GOPers; and (2) they say they typically vote for "Almost all" GOPers or "mostly" GOPers, but a few Dems.
For those of you poll aficionados (you know who you are), the exact screening questions were as follows:
-- Are you 18 years of age or older and registered to vote at this address?
-- Generally speaking, do you think of yourself as a Republican, a Democrat, a an Independent, or something else?
-- Thinking about the past few state and national elections in which you have voted, which best describes the candidates for whom you voted?
For this poll we did not gather info. based on likelihood to vote in the '08 WH primary.
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