Stories by Ruy Teixeira
Ruy Teixeira is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation.
Public Opinion Watch: The exurban myth; Who needs the political center; The people don't want to privatize Social Security
Posted on Dec 23, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Public Opinion Watch: Where's the evidence that values voters increased this election from 2000? Also, an update on the National Exit Polls results on Hispanic voting.
Posted on Dec 16, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Public Opinion Watch: Reconsidering the conventional wisdom about Ohio; Bush's Hispanic support headed downward; It's still a Roe v. Wade Country.
Posted on Dec 9, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Public Opinion Watch: The votes for Bush and Reagan's incumbent campaigns don't compare well; Bush is not due an election honeymoon; did fast-growing counties help Dubya in the election?
Posted on Dec 2, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Public Opinion Watch: Dig a little and you'll see that the evidence doesn't point to Bush getting 44 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Posted on Nov 24, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Exit polls have always drawn samples that are off the real world results and have always had to be corrected (weighted) to eliminate bias. According to the unweighted exit polls of the past, we would have had Presidents Dukakis and Gore.
Posted on Nov 17, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Public Opinion Watch: Kerry got killed by the white working class; a majority of voters never even trusted Kerry on the economy; cultural alienation played a big part in the loss.
Posted on Nov 11, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Public Opinion Watch: Gallup's methods don't weight race very well; tracking polls aren't worth tracking; Kerry has huge leads among new and young voters.
Posted on Oct 27, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Public Opinion Watch: How Gallup got it wrong, Kerry and Bush tied in the major polls, a note on Nader, and a final verdict on the debates.
Posted on Oct 19, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Public Opinion Watch: After the debates the central dynamics of the presidential election have changed – and Kerry is much better off for it.
Posted on Oct 13, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Public Opinion Watch: Security Moms are a dud after all; Democrats need a clear agenda for the Latino vote.
Posted on Sep 30, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
In this edition of Public Opinion Watch: The misleading numbers of the Gallup and New York times polls are explained. Also, persuadable voters have still not been persuaded.
Posted on Sep 23, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Featured this week: Why the race is much closer than people think; Labor Day leads and possible election outcomes this year.
Posted on Sep 16, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Did the convention really deliver a bounce for Bush? This week's Public Opinion Watch analyzes how likely voter polling works.
Posted on Sep 9, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Did the Swift Boat attacks really hurt Kerry? Do voters think the economy is in good shape? The mess and mystery of election polling for 2004 gets explained.
Posted on Sep 2, 2004, Source: The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation
Why the Republican majority (probably) won't last.
Posted on May 1, 2003, Source: Washington Monthly
