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Mark Mellman, Opinion Contributor

Mark Mellman, Opinion Contributor

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Mellman: Partisan political hacks in black robes

robes. Partisanship and ideology are more important to them than integrity and the Constitution they swore to defend. 

29.05.2024 10

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Mellman: Diving deeper — The Trump economy vs. the Biden economy 

If the argument I’ve made here before is right — if people live less in a “jobs economy” and more in a “cost of living economy,” we can...

22.05.2024 40

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Mellman: How pollsters’ backroom decisions affect the polling results you see

The key point though is that a decision to mix two seemingly quite different categories of responses produced a significant impact on the analysis...

15.05.2024 10

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Mellman: Trump's warning about America and the demonstrations 

Politicians who appear to capitulate to the demands of the mob have much to lose and little to gain — unless your goal is to assist Trump.  

08.05.2024 30

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Mellman: Election Day is nearing — How is President Biden doing? 

Forecasters who suggest one candidate or the other is a certain victor have a 50/50 chance of being 100 percent right.  

01.05.2024 20

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Mellman: Lessons from problematic Holocaust denial polling 

The lesson is clear. Question wording can have a substantial impact on responses, with complex or confusing wording yielding inaccurate results and...

10.04.2024 4

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Mellman: Religion’s political power 

Donald Trump, hardly known as a scholar of Christian scripture, is now hawking Bibles. It is a strange story that sums up an important reality in...

03.04.2024 10

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Mellman: My apologies — and a rise in Biden’s approval rating

President Biden’s approval rating actually increased by 2 points in the wake of this SOTU, better than the average increase of zero.  

27.03.2024 20

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Mellman: The SOTU fails to move Biden’s numbers. That’s no surprise.

President Biden delivered a great speech, galvanizing Democrats, demonstrating he’s still at the top of his game, giving his troops talking points...

20.03.2024 30

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Mellman: Any number in a storm — looking to predict elections

Predicting general election outcomes from primary results is a fool’s errand. The next redoubt of those scouring the tea leaves provided by primary...

28.02.2024 10

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Mellman: Will convictions hurt Trump?  

Beliefs are persistent, stubborn things. People fancy themselves open to new information and diverse perspectives, and sometimes we are. But mostly,...

14.02.2024 5

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Presidential candidates don't know when to fold

Why do these candidates so frequently postpone their reckoning with reality for so long? While each has his or her own psychology, from my experience...

07.02.2024 7

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Mellman: Updating the GOP primary and holiday shopping

Interpreting poll results requires strict fealty to the parameters of the questions’ wording. Trying to measure complex concepts with one or two...

31.01.2024 10

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Mellman: Why has Trump remained so popular with Republicans?  

Support for Donald Trump was forged by partisanship and held in place by a combination of that partisanship and people’s reluctance to change their...

17.01.2024 10

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The pitfalls of polling about a Gaza ceasefire

People like world peace and ceasefires. But public policy involves tradeoffs and conflicting values.  Understanding how voters make the tradeoffs...

10.01.2024 5

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Mellman: Different questions, different projections

Two different questions—both seemingly reasonable—yielding opposite forecasts. How is that possible?

13.12.2023 30

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Mellman: The problem with interpreting poll crosstabs

In short, be careful interpreting crosstabs, and even more important, don’t plan a campaign strategy around applying conventional wisdom to the...

06.12.2023 20

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