Apparently the sample was "3,161 registered voters" nationwide, done in 2002. As a methodologist, my concern would be with where they got their income numbers from; traditionally, income shows up as one of the questions lots of people lie to pollsters about. I'm guessing they used Census 2000 income data at the county level and crossmatched it with the I-R poll results, since they apparently weren't able to do a straight "Bush voters reported earning this much, Gore voters this much" comparison.
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Date: 2004-09-14 10:15 pm (UTC)I think the poll that article was referring to is this one:
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2002/0315nj1.htm
http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=1453
Apparently the sample was "3,161 registered voters" nationwide, done in 2002. As a methodologist, my concern would be with where they got their income numbers from; traditionally, income shows up as one of the questions lots of people lie to pollsters about. I'm guessing they used Census 2000 income data at the county level and crossmatched it with the I-R poll results, since they apparently weren't able to do a straight "Bush voters reported earning this much, Gore voters this much" comparison.
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Date: 2004-09-14 11:38 pm (UTC)Thank you for the link.