Hmm, very interesting stuff. What is it that Mason-Dixon does that gives such perpetually stable results?
This post is from a while ago, but this seems as good a place as any to ask it. It seems to be pretty well unanimous that Mason-Dixon is the best and most trustworthy pollster around, especially in Florida. Whenever a poll from Florida comes out and it's not by Mason-Dixon, everyone always says to trash it.
My question is in two parts: if Mason-Dixon is so good, 1) what do they do, and 2) why doesn't everyone just copy it? On the face of it, it seems kind of silly for people to all be doing their own thing if one polling agency consistently does better than the others.
