A plain blog about politics

I know there hasn't been much here lately, but I've been busy as usual over at PP, plus a bit at Greg's place. I'm really ...

The "Millenials" poll out earlier this week showing (among other things) younger people unenthusiastic about the ACA has sparked ...

Last week I took someone to task for placing too much weight on Gallup's reports of Latino voters supposedly disproportionate turn away...

Josh Kraushaar also said : The president isn't just losing his skeptics from the chaotic Obamacare rollout but his allies who stood to...

Sometimes, I think it helps to be a solid 1500 miles away from Washington. Or maybe it helps to have read a little history. Or maybe I'm...

One more time into the question about the VA-Gov polls and the election results. I came up with a possible (and speculative) explanation b...

There are polls out that have people opposing a shutdown over the ACA ; there's also at least one poll out that has blame split if ther...

You probably read about that PPP poll result in which Louisiana Republicans blamed Barack Obama for Katrina. Great fun for liberals! But do ...

I have a TAP column out today in which I'm not very kind to the sociologists who got a ton of publicity last week from a claim that ...

Happy Birthday to Michelle Phillips , 69. Going with the imdb link instead of allmusic; I do like the Mamas and the Papas, but I like her St...

I haven't mentioned it for a while, I don't think, but I do still believe the war in Syria matters, so I'll go with that this ti...

There's a new Quinnipiac poll out with findings about scandalmania that are drawing attention, including a ranking of the scandals (res...

To Mark Blumenthal and Emily Swanson, who recreate the classic "1975 Public Affairs Act" survey and find -- no surprise -- that lo...

I recommend to everyone an excellent Mark Blumenthal summary of the polling on government spending . The results are familiar, but still wor...

Ron Fournier on one reason Barack Obama may refocus his State of the Union message: Though Obama's team would dismiss its significanc...

Sorry for the slow blogging today; we had a power outage here at Plain Blog World Headquarters this morning (on top of a messed up night las...

Well, actually, sort of the opposite -- two great polling questions today furnished an excellent reminder of why all policy surveys should b...

The New Republic's Noam Scheiber has (some of) Mitt Romney's internal polling from the last weekend of the campaign, and has discus...

I do think the way CNN (and presumably other networks, but I was mostly watching CNN and don't really know what others were doing) are ...

Remember back on Monday and Tuesday when this blog and several others were cautioning everyone to ignore leaked early exit polls? I figure...