Date: 3|1|2011
Public Policy Poll Targets Union Househoulds in Poll
Yesterday a poll was released by Democrat affiliated Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, North Carolina that claimed Governor Scott Walker would lose in a re-vote of last November’s election.
Public Policy Polling was founded by, and still led by, Democratic pollster Dean Debnam, whose political contributions show a considerable Democratic bias. Public Policy Polling doesn’t even attempt to hide its Democrat cheerleading. In a Politico article depicting their war against Republican Senate candidate Richard Burr, Public Policy Polling Director Tom Jensen said “we’re absolutely rooting in the race. We don’t want Richard Burr to get reelected. We wanted Obama to win last fall.”
Beyond the liberal bias of Public Policy Polling, this specific poll over represents union households. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership in Wisconsin is approximately 355,000. With a workforce of around 2.5 million, union membership constitutes about 14.2% of the workforce. The poll that Public Policy Polling conducted shows that 32% of the households polled had a union member. This is a gross overrepresentation of union households.
Given an overrepresentation of union households and a history of Public Policy Polling’s Democratic bias, this poll ought to be viewed with significant skepticism.
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Monica said
Mar 2, 2011 at 11:09 PM
You’re assuming only Union households don’t support Walker. Both non-Union households and Republicans are protesting. So I’m skeptical of your assumption.
Derek said
Jul 21, 2011 at 2:48 PM
This post is reductions. Obviously not everyone votes in a given election. One of the groups who are likely to make up a disproportionately bigger part of the electorate is union members (along with church goes, better educated etc…) Thus assuming bias because a group is projected to vote more frequently and in greater number that average Joe citizen is just silly. Ppp has been shown to UNDER estimate democratic support.