From today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
"In the still-unformed '08 presidential race, 24 percent of Georgia Republican voters said they favor Giuliani, the former New York mayor, with Sen. John McCain in second with 18 percent."
So Republicans in a state that is more conservative than average are supporting these two moderates? I know name recognition alone is a huge factor at this point in time, but nonetheless I find this surprising.
Doesn't that rather depend on how the question was asked? Were people asked to give a name, or presented with a list of names; and, if the latter, which names in which order were they listed, and how were respondents asked to identify their preferences?
There's a classic book called
How To Say Just About Anything With Statistics; how the poll is taken is usually at least as interesting as the answers it generates.
