This is an interesting attempt. I think that most of us would support more of this kind of thing.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/">http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Aside from the interest of the methodology, people here might be interested in the content. The<a href="http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/california/"> California "deliberative poll"</a> had two questions of interest:</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>Allow voters to rank the candidates in order of preference, so that the winner can be </div></div>
<div><div>decided without a second election. (61% support before, 58% after)</div></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><div>Elect more than one representative from each Assembly and Senate district with the </div>
</div><div><div>winners receiving seats proportional to votes (48% support before, 49% after)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jameson Quinn</div>