There’s been a lot discussion lately about the issue of whether people should be required to show a photo ID in order to vote in public elections. We thought we’d take a look ourselves, so sent the question across our network to see how people felt. When weighted to represent the full US population it […]
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Our Final (Reported) Numbers on the Allegheny County Exec Race
With 5 days to go until the Nov. 8 elections, we are happy to share our latest analysis on the election between Democratic County Executive Candidate Rich Fitzgerald and Republican Candidate D. Raja. We will run one final data mining exercise on Monday November 7th but will keep those numbers private until after the election. […]
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Tracking the City of Pittsburgh Library Referendum
After such a positive response to the research we published on the County Executive race in Allegheny County, PA, we decided to delve into an even more-local issue, namely, the pending vote in the City of Pittsburgh on a referendum to introduce a 0.25mil special tax on city residents to support operations and maintenance of […]
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Tracking the County Exec Race in Allegheny County (PA)
With five weeks to go until the election for Allegheny County Executive, we thought it would be fun to share some data we’ve been analyzing on the race between Democrat Rich Fitzgerald and Republican D. Raja. We will share updated results in two weeks, and again one day before the election (Nov. 7). This research […]
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In Which We Begin to Dabble in Political Polling
While the soul-less capitalists in our company focus on mundane but profitable consumer research, the data wonks at CIVICSCIENCE can’t help but test our technology in the sexier political sphere. If reputable pollsters can publish “scientific” results based only on people who answer their land-line telephones, then clearly there is room for innovation. Consider that […]
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