7/27 Zogby Poll - Most convoluted question from Zogby ever

[RobertSeattle]

Have your views of John Kerry and John Edwards changed as a result of anything you've seen or heard about from the Democratic National Convention?

0 I didn't plan to vote for Kerry and Edwards before and I still don't
0 I had been leaning toward voting for Kerry and Edwards and favor them more strongly now
0 I had been leaning toward voting for Kerry and Edwards but favor them less strongly now
0 I had been leaning toward voting for Kerry and Edwards but won't vote for them now
0 I had been leaning toward voting for Kerry and Edwards and my views have not changed
0 I had decided to vote to Kerry and Edwards and still plan to do so
0 I had decided to vote for Kerry and Edwards but favor them less strongly now
0 I had decided to vote for Kerry and Edwards but won't vote for them now
0 Not sure
0 Refused

Ugh!

[Gloria]

1. Yeah, I really had to study this one, too!!!

Finally wended my way to the third answer from the bottom " 0 I had decided to vote to Kerry and Edwards and still plan to do so "

None of the answer fit. Because it doesn't give a choice beyond that answer...which would be, "with more committment" or "enthusiasm"

Which shows the Convention is doing what it's supposed to do....bringing people back into the fold. I'm so impressed by the Convention itself that it has given me more hope that maybe somebody knows what they're doing...

[arcane1]

2. "I didn't plan to vote for Kerry and Edwards before and I still don't"

there is no choice for the opposite of that:

"I didn't plan to vote for Kerry and Edwards before but NOW I WILL!!!!"

:wtf:

[SheilaT]

3. Actually, they ought to have a choice

that goes something like: Since we do not directly elect a president and I live in a very Republican state I will/will not bother to vote for Kerry/Edwards.

And another choice that goes something like: Even though Kerry/Edwards are not precisely my dream team, I live in a swing state and so of course I will vote for them.

And maybe even yet another that goes: Since I live in a state that will go very heavily for Kerry/Edwards, I feel comfortable in voting for a third party candidate.

Those questions would reveal a great deal about the true voter attitudes.

[w4rma]

4. The total number of people for all the answers you have proposed, SheilaT

will be under the Margin of Error for the poll sample. Thats why it is a bad idea to poll using answers like those.

[SheilaT]

7. Maybe, maybe not.

They should ask and see what happens.

I'm on the call list for any number of consumer research surveys, and more than half the time at some point in the survey there's a question where none of the choices they give me is one I can make. Something or another has been excluded.

Actually, the very best kind of survey research is the kind that asks open-ended questions, and then attempts to quantify what was said, but that's really expensive and time-consuming, so it's almost never done.

The really bad examples of survey research are the simple two-choice polls on various websites.

[JerseygirlCT]

5. I thought it odd, too. Was missing my response

I had decided to vote for Kerry and Edwards and favor them more strongly now...

Is there something in that option being absent???

[union_maid]

6. I would have liked to have that option, too

Maybe that's not really the point, though. The point is probably to find out whether or not the convention and coverage of it is changing minds.