[EM] Deliberative polling

[Michael Allan]

James Fishkin often invites discussion of his deliberative polls in
the NCDD list.  Here, on the California poll, for example:
http://lists.thataway.org/scripts/wa-THATAWAY.exe?A1=ind1107C&L=NCDD-DISCUSSION#1

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Michael Allan

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Jameson Quinn wrote:
> 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