Thursday, September 10, 2009

Pollster this Week

Here's what I think is cool from pollster.com this week.


Wow, this looks like a pretty steady decline. But approval is still higher than disapproval. I wonder how this compares to other presidents.

Age and Turnout

Here's a great graph posted on Pollster.com by Charles Franklin. As you can see, it portrays the traditional relationship between age and turnout in 2000, 2004, and 2008. Given all of the chatter about increased mobilization of the youth vote in 2008, how well does this picture support the conventional wisdom?



Thursday, September 3, 2009

My 2008 election blog

I have another blog. It focuses on data-based research on the 2008 presidential election. I like to include lots of cool figures on my blog. I really like this one: