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Steve VancoreJuly 30, 2015

Mason-Dixon recently released a new statewide poll testing the two pending solar amendments currently making their way through the process in Florida. Despite the fact that both dealt with a similar subject, solar power, it was a tale of two initiatives: one very passable and the other with seemingly no path to victory. The initiative […]

Phil AmmannJuly 28, 2015

This saltshaker test will be short on originality and long on quotes. The latest Mason-Dixon poll results of both Democratic and Republican primaries for U.S. Senate apparently come from the same survey of, “500 registered Republican voters and 500 registered Democratic voters.” So in assessing its validity/reliability, we will offer our first quote from a recent […]

Steve VancoreJuly 25, 2015

The most recent poll from Mason-Dixon shows Jeb all but lapping the current GOP field, holding a strong 12-point lead over the 2nd-place finisher, Marco Rubio, who scored a solid 16 percent in a field of 16 challengers. You read that right, 16 challengers named on a phone poll. Mason-Dixon did well to rotate those names, […]

Steve VancoreJuly 8, 2015

The recently released Gravis Marketing poll of the Florida Presidential Preference Primaries and the U.S. Senate races is truly confounding. On one hand, it appears thorough and reasonably well-conceived. On the other, it has some very serious problems that all but make the poll useless and even misleading. The poll had large numbers of voters […]

Peter SchorschJune 23, 2015

It’s officially Summer, Legislative Session has (finally) ended and there are at least a dozen serious candidates declared for President – and that’s just the Republican side of the ledger. Do you know what that means? POLLING SEASON HAS BEGUN! I know it’s a little crazy but we are only (yes, “only”) about 200 days […]

Steve VancoreJune 11, 2015

When it comes to political polls, here’s how the news cycle usually goes: Poll gets released, we write about it, readers read it and (because who doesn’t love a poll?) traffic goes up. This week’s publication of the recent Saint Leo University poll didn’t go that way. It released the poll, we wrote about it, and instead of […]

Tag: salt shaker test

Mason-Dixon solar poll: Salt Shaker Test

Lotsa salt applied to Mason-Dixon U.S. Senate poll

Take Mason-Dixon poll with Jeb crushing Florida with a few grains of salt

Analyzing the latest Gravis Marketing poll: Between half and a full shaker of salt

Return of the Saltshaker series examining the veracity of the political poling

The return of the salt shaker: Saint Leo University polls kind of suck