{"id":39244,"date":"2012-04-25T11:16:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=39244"},"modified":"2012-04-25T11:16:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:16:09","slug":"interviewing-public-policy-polling-on-twitter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/04\/interviewing-public-policy-polling-on-twitter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviewing Public Policy Polling on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The left-leaning company does lots of polling in New Mexico and gets hammered by Republicans frequently. I decided to ask about its methodology and funding to better understand the company and its work.<\/h4>\n

Every time the left-leaning Public Policy Polling<\/a> comes out with a new survey in New Mexico, Republicans pounce \u2013 and the criticism isn\u2019t unique to the Land of Enchantment.<\/p>\n

The last time I wrote about the controversy<\/a>, the state GOP accused PPP of perpetuating polling fraud by including \u201cmore Democrat voters in their approval polls than is representative of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another time, national Republicans jumped into the fray<\/a>. The polling company\u2019s Tom Jensen has defended its work in part by pointing to past surveys in New Mexico and elsewhere that were \u201cpretty darn accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The debate is not insignificant. PPP is doing more publicly released polling in New Mexico than anyone else these days.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the company released a new poll<\/a> of the New Mexico Senate race on Tuesday that showed little change since the last survey<\/a>. I noticed that this one had higher percentages of women and Hispanics but fewer Democrats than the last. It\u2019s not uncommon for their demographics to change like that from poll to poll.<\/p>\n

So I decided to question PPP about it on Twitter. Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n

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@haussamen<\/a> we don’t weight for party at all, for gender and race we weight to a range, depends on the response for that individual poll<\/p>\n

— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) April 24, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n