Kathleen Weldon

I have heard the colors used to be flipped by the networks in different elections, but became solidified with the current colors during the endless 2000 coverage

Report cover: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Intellectual's Challenge to the Corporate Executive Intellectuals ask: "Having performed so ably on raising living standards, why don't business leaders apply their extraordinary talents to social goals?" September 1961 THE PUBLIC OPINION INDEX FOR INDUSTRY

I’m certain this is an exact quote

Nixon v Kennedy polling trend 1957 to final election, with key events indicated. Voter preference is accurately described as “seesawing” Public Opinion Index for Industry report using Gallup data

I do love a nice trendline with event markers

To a thief the world is full of thieves. Someone whose soul is up for sale can’t imagine a person not having a price.

He also had a chicken farm

One was a clerk at the Boston Herald, the other worked in a lumber yard - he started there after dropping out of 5th grade, was a specialist in grading exotic woods.

New resource for political scientists thinking about the Middle East right now: 21 reports from surveys in Israel from Greenberg Quinlan Research, 1998-2001, and one from the Palestinian territories (2000)
ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/search...

Passes out

100% agree

I have been reliably informed from people who work at the cafe in my office building that students regularly try to toast while peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Without removing the plastic wrapping.

It's an Ivy League school.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Little Siamese? My favorites

Insert Jeff Goldblum here

Handwritten cover of WWII era Department of the Interior report, reading: THEY'RE FRIENDLY in New England, What New England newspapers say about Japanese Americans.

This may be the only time this has ever been said about New England

The meat flavor would be noticeable

Tallowcream?!??! The horror.

I say this as someone who prefers lard for piecrusts: Tallowcream is madness.

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

I think it's because there are many people in American who literally never spend time in truly public spaces except in a car. It's home/car/store/car/home/car/church/car/home. Never walking, never going to parks, never experiencing public space.

Ugh "hard to see how getting people employed"
Okay, I'm done for the day

But of course more generally, it's hard to getting people employed wouldn't improve standard of living? And what is the "work ethic" doing in there - since when was the New Deal about inspiring people who didn't want to work?

Yeah, I have no idea what's going on with that 2%. The ones who refused to pick one even after the prompt?

28A. Now, let me ask you something different. Imagine for a minute that FDR, Franklin Roosevelt, came back today and became president in these times. Which of the following do you think he would do -- [READ AND ROTATE] Rekindle the work ethic and put people to work 43 Improve people's wages and standard of living 11 Do something about the health care and other problems 15 Be strong and independent of the special interests 7 Create too much big government 9 (More than one: Ask:) Well, which one do you think he would do? . 2 Don't know (volunteered) 13

This question was run in PA in 1990. FDR had been dead 45 years

Paid leave, presumably.

definitely not a problem

In related news, I'm having an avatar run a marathon for me today. Hope I'm not sore tomorrow!

Starting a job posting thread in the survey industry. First, off Pew on their methods group

More newly published Greenberg reports:
Israel surveys from 1998-2001 for the Middle East Peace Information Center and the Labor Party

ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/search...

every morning

Survey Associate, Methodology Pew Research Center Organization Overview Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts publi...

Exciting news! We just posted an opening for a Survey Associate on @pewresearch.org's Methods team! This is an amazing opportunity for someone relatively early in their career to join what is, IMO, the most fun methods team in the business. Full description at the link below.

my guess is private auction at Mar-a-lago