The actual question was “Do you support or oppose the Panetta-Burns plan?” (The previous question was ”… the Bowles-Simpson plan?”) So you could infer that the two were related, and possibly partisan/opposing plans, but not much more than that.
Not sure …....................................................… 77%
both because I assumed more people had heard of him (which shows, I guess, I live in a bubble and don’t correct enough for it), and because I had assumed a more favorable score, with perhaps only extreme Republicans having an unfavorable opinion. I guess I was failing to take into account that the kind of people who follow polls with so much dedication to have heard of Silver are almost all committed partisans.
The actual question was “Do you support or oppose the Panetta-Burns plan?” (The previous question was ”… the Bowles-Simpson plan?”) So you could infer that the two were related, and possibly partisan/opposing plans, but not much more than that.
Thanks for linking to the full results, very interesting.
I was surprised at first glance by:
both because I assumed more people had heard of him (which shows, I guess, I live in a bubble and don’t correct enough for it), and because I had assumed a more favorable score, with perhaps only extreme Republicans having an unfavorable opinion. I guess I was failing to take into account that the kind of people who follow polls with so much dedication to have heard of Silver are almost all committed partisans.
Nitpick: ‘not sure’ isn’t the same as ‘haven’t heard of him’. There are lots of things I know about that I don’t have an opinion on.