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Kasz216 on 25 February 2010
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NinjaguyDan said:
Kasz216 said:

I mean... one question is... and I quote...

"What comes closer to the lesson you think Democrats should learn from the recent Senate election in Massachusetts, where the seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy was won by a Republican: "Voters want Democrats to slow down and try to do less." OR, "Voters are upset about the slow pace of change - and will hold Democrats accountable if they refuse to use their power to fight special interests on behalf of regular people."

It doesn't take someone with a degree that involves making questions like this to realize how unbelievably bias some of these questions are. 

If we're isolating questions, this is the only one that matters:

QUESTION: Would you favor or oppose the national government offering everyone the choice of buying into a government administered health insurance plan -- something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get -- that would compete with private health insurance plans?

                         FAVOR   OPPOSE   NOT SURE
NEVADA (Reid)
ALL                        56%     38%       6%
INDEPENDENTS      61%     35%       4%
OBAMA VOTERS     75%     13%     12%

ILLINOIS (Durbin, Burris)
ALL                        68%     26%       6%
INDEPENDENTS      69%     22%       9%
OBAMA VOTERS     87%       6%       7%

WASHINGTON (Murray, Cantwell)
ALL                        65%     28%       7%
INDEPENDENTS      67%     25%       8%
OBAMA VOTERS     79%     11%     10%

MISSOURI (McCaskill)
ALL                        57%     35%       8%
INDEPENDENTS      56%     33%     11%
OBAMA VOTERS     76%     18%       6%

VIRGINIA (Webb, Warner)
ALL                        61%     32%       7%
INDEPENDENTS      62%     30%       8%
OBAMA VOTERS     78%     15%       7%

IOWA (Harkin)
ALL                        62%     31%       7%
INDEPENDENTS      61%     29%     10%
OBAMA VOTERS     78%     14%       8%

MINNESOTA (Klobuchar, Franken)
ALL                        62%     33%       5%
INDEPENDENTS      62%     32%       6%
OBAMA VOTERS     82%     15%       3%

COLORADO (Udall, Bennet)
ALL                        58%     36%       6%
INDEPENDENTS      59%     34%       7%
OBAMA VOTERS     78%     17%       5%

 

 

Are you familiar with priming?  If so you'd understand why you can't isolate questions and why a couple biased ones ruin a questionaire.

 

You also missed out this part.

MN and CO polls used slightly different language for this question: "Which do you think should be a higher priority for congressional Democrats right now – working in a bipartisan way with Republicans in Congress or fighting for policies that will benefit working families, even if those policies can only be passed with Democratic votes?"