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After I quizzed the left-leaning Public Policy Polling about the organization and its surveys last week<\/a>, two other media outlets joined in with their own posts.<\/p>\n Capitol Report New Mexico posted an article questioning whether there is \u201csomething funny going on\u201d with Public Policy Polling\u2019s work in New Mexico. From the article<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cRepublicans often cry foul when PPP numbers show GOP candidates and issues in less than favorable light \u2014 that\u2019s natural in the zero-sum game of politics. But conservatives complain that PPP surveys aren\u2019t just snapshots of elections and issues but, rather, an attempt to\u00a0advance talking points\u00a0to try to shape opinion and influence the media.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018They\u2019re not so much a polling organization as they are a group of people trying to\u00a0establish a narrative,\u2019 one\u00a0statewide\u00a0Republican official who preferred not to have his name used told\u00a0Capitol Report New Mexico\u00a0this week.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Capitol Report said Martinez had a 57 percent approval rating among Hispanics in one PPP survey but, six days later, was at 51 percent.<\/p>\n The New Mexico Telegram countered with an explanation for that<\/a>, however:<\/p>\n \u201cFirst of all, the topline of the poll in question was not Martinez\u2019s approval ratings, but rather if Martinez\u2019s presence on the Republican ticket would help Mitt Romney in New Mexico against Barack Obama.<\/p>\n \u201cThe answer was no.<\/p>\n \u201cSecondly, the anonymous Republican fails to realize that the numbers in the second poll are from a much smaller sample size \u2014 and therefore have a much larger margin of error. The second poll was of 526 New Mexico voters \u2014 only 38 percent of whom were Hispanics. This means the sample size in the Hispanics in the second poll is just 200 (rounded up from 199.8) \u2014 and would as such have a much higher margin of error.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There\u2019s lots more. Read Capitol Report\u2019s article here<\/a> and the New Mexico Telegram\u2019s analysis here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After I quizzed the left-leaning Public Policy Polling about the organization and its surveys last week, two other media outlets joined in with their own posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,240],"class_list":["post-39375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-polling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}