@PPPpolls News: Monthly North Carolina Poll Questions

[Sorenroy]

https://twitter.com/ppppolls

This is the header post and will just be used for information about what is going on in the world of polling organizations.

I have decided to start this thread because I find that Public Policy Polling is very engaged with their "community" and often interacts through taking poll suggestions and answering queries that people may have. To this end I have decided to dedicate a thread to following what is going on currently over on their pages (mostly so Atlas can sway what they do and ask). If anyone knows of active pollsters that engage their community, I would be happy to add them to here and keep up with what they are doing.

This is not a thread about the polls themselves, it is about keeping up with the current goings on of PPP. If it dies, then so be it.

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/743888607505678336
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/06/north-carolina-question-suggestions.html

PPP is going to be doing their monthly poll of NC over the weekend and is asking for question suggestions.

[Doimper]

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/731209026353176576

lol

[Landslide Lyndon]

I voted for Virginia. It should be better for them to delay polling Florida until the whole Rubio situation is made clear.

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

They should do a PA poll next!

This and would like to see some polls out of IA

[Ebsy]

Public Policy Trolling.

[Sorenroy]

Continuing on with the fact that the voting American public is ill informed we have this marvelous fact,

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(Not sure how he got this, but it was re-tweeted by @ppppolls, so I'm assuming it's true.)

[Skye]

Voted for PA.

[Xing]

Colorado or Iowa. We haven't seen a lot of polls from either of those states recently.

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

Public Policy Trolling.

That's why I love them.

Hopefully they include the Libertarians.

[HillOfANight]

PollsterPatrick of Monmouth replies to me occasionally.

[Wells]

Public Policy Trolling.

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https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/735612233405857792

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

What do you think the result will show?

Hillary up by 6 points maybe

[EliteLX]

Continuing on with the fact that the voting American public is ill informed we have this marvelous fact,

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(Not sure how he got this, but it was re-tweeted by @ppppolls, so I'm assuming it's true.)

It's games like this that undermines PPP's reputation as a pollster, you look like your organization is run by a bunch of partisan children. Of course huge portions of Romney voters would assume such a fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the 49 year old small-town mechanic isn't watching statistical data on stock market performance. I'm sure if you polled John Kerry's voters on a random fact about GWB's accomplishments they wouldn't buy it either, it's drilled into their heads.

Some of the questions are funny, some are poorly poorly made and could be pulled on some of the hyper liberals any day of the week.

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IIRC, I did get one of my suggestions into a PPP poll once (some 2018 scenarios in AZ). Let's see what happens with PA.

[Sorenroy]

Continuing on with the fact that the voting American public is ill informed we have this marvelous fact,

You must be logged in to read this quote.

(Not sure how he got this, but it was re-tweeted by @ppppolls, so I'm assuming it's true.)

It's games like this that undermines PPP's reputation as a pollster, you look like your organization is run by a bunch of partisan children. Of course huge portions of Romney voters would assume such a fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the 49 year old small-town mechanic isn't watching statistical data on stock market performance. I'm sure if you polled John Kerry's voters on a random fact about GWB's accomplishments they wouldn't buy it either, it's drilled into their heads.

Some of the questions are funny, some are poorly poorly made and could be pulled on some of the hyper liberals any day of the week.

I wasn't trying to insinuate that Republicans are dumb, it's more of the fact that people on both sides of the isle seem to be woefully uninformed when it comes to basic information. In one of their earlier polls they asked if vaccines cause autism and 28% of "Very Liberal" voters said yes (over 50% said yes or were unsure). It just frustrates me that people seem to not know basic facts, or when unsure decide to blame someone rather then to pick the "not sure" option. I think I would be less frustrated with Trump voters if 50% didn't say that Clinton was involved with Vince Foster's death, or with Democrats if a significant number of them believed in scientific condenses like "GMOs are safe to eat" or "nuclear power is better then burning fossil fuels".

Just imagine a world where arguments came from facts rather than that good old gut feeling for a second and we could argue about actual issues like how to deal with the economy, abortion, and climate change.

[EliteLX]

Continuing on with the fact that the voting American public is ill informed we have this marvelous fact,

You must be logged in to read this quote.

(Not sure how he got this, but it was re-tweeted by @ppppolls, so I'm assuming it's true.)

It's games like this that undermines PPP's reputation as a pollster, you look like your organization is run by a bunch of partisan children. Of course huge portions of Romney voters would assume such a fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the 49 year old small-town mechanic isn't watching statistical data on stock market performance. I'm sure if you polled John Kerry's voters on a random fact about GWB's accomplishments they wouldn't buy it either, it's drilled into their heads.

Some of the questions are funny, some are poorly poorly made and could be pulled on some of the hyper liberals any day of the week.

I wasn't trying to insinuate that Republicans are dumb, it's more of the fact that people on both sides of the isle seem to be woefully uninformed when it comes to basic information. In one of their earlier polls they asked if vaccines cause autism and 28% of "Very Liberal" voters said yes (over 50% said yes or were unsure). It just frustrates me that people seem to not know basic facts, or when unsure decide to blame someone rather then to pick the "not sure" option. I think I would be less frustrated with Trump voters if 50% didn't say that Clinton was involved with Vince Foster's death, or with Democrats if a significant number of them believed in scientific condenses like "GMOs are safe to eat" or "nuclear power is better then burning fossil fuels".

Just imagine a world where arguments came from facts rather than that good old gut feeling for a second and we could argue about actual issues like how to deal with the economy, abortion, and climate change.

Respectfully agreed.

[Maxwell]

Continuing on with the fact that the voting American public is ill informed we have this marvelous fact,

You must be logged in to read this quote.

(Not sure how he got this, but it was re-tweeted by @ppppolls, so I'm assuming it's true.)

It's games like this that undermines PPP's reputation as a pollster, you look like your organization is run by a bunch of partisan children. Of course huge portions of Romney voters would assume such a fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the 49 year old small-town mechanic isn't watching statistical data on stock market performance. I'm sure if you polled John Kerry's voters on a random fact about GWB's accomplishments they wouldn't buy it either, it's drilled into their heads.

Some of the questions are funny, some are poorly poorly made and could be pulled on some of the hyper liberals any day of the week.

There aren't any though.

[EliteLX]

Continuing on with the fact that the voting American public is ill informed we have this marvelous fact,

You must be logged in to read this quote.

(Not sure how he got this, but it was re-tweeted by @ppppolls, so I'm assuming it's true.)

It's games like this that undermines PPP's reputation as a pollster, you look like your organization is run by a bunch of partisan children. Of course huge portions of Romney voters would assume such a fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the 49 year old small-town mechanic isn't watching statistical data on stock market performance. I'm sure if you polled John Kerry's voters on a random fact about GWB's accomplishments they wouldn't buy it either, it's drilled into their heads.

Some of the questions are funny, some are poorly poorly made and could be pulled on some of the hyper liberals any day of the week.

There aren't any though.

In fairness, GWB wasn't exactly the embodiment of an outstanding president but he was a leader, don't be so harsh on Dub'ya!

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Someone that posed a question didn't know who the Democrats had nominated for the Pennsylvania senate race.

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Someone that posed a question didn't know who the Democrats had nominated for the Pennsylvania senate race.

That entire comment was hilarious, but not intentionally hilarious.

[Hammy]

Nevada badly needs polled--I've seen analysis both here and elsewhere based on polling data that's over half a year old.

[Crumpets]

Updated because they are now taking Virginia questions.

I kind of want to suggest "Opinion of Virginia: FF or HP?"

[Sorenroy]

bump for NC questions.

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/743888607505678336
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/06/north-carolina-question-suggestions.html

[Adam Griffin]

Continuing on with the fact that the voting American public is ill informed we have this marvelous fact,

You must be logged in to read this quote.

(Not sure how he got this, but it was re-tweeted by @ppppolls, so I'm assuming it's true.)

It's games like this that undermines PPP's reputation as a pollster, you look like your organization is run by a bunch of partisan children. Of course huge portions of Romney voters would assume such a fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the 49 year old small-town mechanic isn't watching statistical data on stock market performance. I'm sure if you polled John Kerry's voters on a random fact about GWB's accomplishments they wouldn't buy it either, it's drilled into their heads.

Some of the questions are funny, some are poorly poorly made and could be pulled on some of the hyper liberals any day of the week.

Then the 49 year-old small town mechanic should do what previous generations of Americans were perfectly willing to do when asked such a question: state that they don't know. This definitely ties in with the more recent and intensified phenomenon of everyday rubes thinking that their opinions are facts and that they are better-equipped to understand complex problems than politicians and policy experts.

[Badger]

Continuing on with the fact that the voting American public is ill informed we have this marvelous fact,

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(Not sure how he got this, but it was re-tweeted by @ppppolls, so I'm assuming it's true.)

It's games like this that undermines PPP's reputation as a pollster, you look like your organization is run by a bunch of partisan children. Of course huge portions of Romney voters would assume such a fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the 49 year old small-town mechanic isn't watching statistical data on stock market performance. I'm sure if you polled John Kerry's voters on a random fact about GWB's accomplishments they wouldn't buy it either, it's drilled into their heads.

Some of the questions are funny, some are poorly poorly made and could be pulled on some of the hyper liberals any day of the week.

Many middle aged "small town mechanics"  (geez ELITE, why don't you just say "rubes" ), have kids approaching college or try putting something away for retirement. Or at least may occassionally watch t6he news beyond Fox (which even will slip in the fact the market is going up)