[EM] Deliberative pollingt

Jameson Quinn jameson.quinn at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 00:36:01 PDT 2011


This is an interesting attempt. I think that most of us would support more
of this kind of thing.

http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/

Aside from the interest of the methodology, people here might be interested
in the content. The California "deliberative
poll"<http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/california/>had two questions of
interest:

Allow voters to rank the candidates in order of preference, so that the
winner can be
decided without a second election. (61% support before, 58% after)


Elect more than one representative from each Assembly and Senate district
with the
winners receiving seats proportional to votes (48% support before, 49%
after)


I'm personally disappointed that support did not significantly increase on
either question. I suspect that there was not a lot of discussion of these
issues. Still, it is interesting to see the raw results and demographic
breakdowns on these questions.

Jameson Quinn
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