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"The Polling Critic," syndicated by Interpress News Service (IPS) in 400 papers outside the United States, offers international views of what the public wants from government and business, based on findings missed by poor and partisan polls. Lead author, Alan F. Kay, is a CDI Board Member and patron of polling. For more information, go to www.alanfkay.com.

The views expressed in "The Polling Critic" are strictly those of the author.




 

Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ~ #57
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Jan. 6, 2006
 


 

   
 

Breakthroughs for Public Interest Polling ~ #56
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Jan. 5, 2006
 


 

   
 

Looking Back  –  Forecast Proves Correct ~ #55
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Oct. 13, 2005
 


 

   
 

Public-Interest Polling, Heart and Brain of Democracy ~ #54
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
July 27, 2005
 


 

   
 

EU Constitution, a Tragic Voting Process ~ #53
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
June 27, 2005
 


 

   
 

Galluping On with Sloppy Question Wording, Part 2 ~ #52
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
June 14, 2005
 


 

   
 

Galluping On with Sloppy Question Wording ~ #51
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
May 29, 2005
 

   
 

Galluping to the Wrong Conclusion ~ #50
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
May 18, 2005
 

 
 
 

American People Prioritize Budgets Better than Leaders ~ #49
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
May 5, 2005
 

 
 
 

The Collective Ingenuity of Ordinary People ~ #48
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
April 4, 2005
 

 
 
 

Polling, a Unique Communications Technology ~ #47
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
March 9, 2005
 

 
 
 

Y2K, a Rare Opportunity to Test Deeply Rooted Beliefs ~ #46
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Feb. 11, 2005
 

 
 
 

Y2K, No Problem or Utter Chaos? – Pre-Y2K Views ~ #45
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Jan. 24, 2005
 

 
 
 

The Lessons of Y2K –  1st Global Technological Meltdown Averted ~ #44
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Jan. 10, 2005
 

 
 
 

Election Polls Judged –  No Redeeming Social or Public Value ~ #43
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Nov. 29, 2004
 

 
 
 

Values Matter – How Democrats Can Win Back Voters ~ #42
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Nov. 22, 2004
 

 
 

Values Matter to Voters ~ #41
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Nov. 16, 2004
 

 
 

Energy Policy ~ #40
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Aug. 10, 2004
 

 

 
 

Bush's Trump Card on Iraq and Terrorism ~ #39
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Aug. 10, 2004
 


 

 
 

Political Polling is Getting Better:
Credit where credit is due. A critic need not always be critical.
~ #38
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Aug. 3, 2004
 

 
 

Did Reagan End the Cold War? ~ #37
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
June 21, 2004
 


 

 
 

When the Issue is Acceptable Deaths, 'Taboo or Not Taboo – That is the Question' ~ #36
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
April 14, 2004
 

 
 

Asking a Taboo Question ~ #35
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
April 14, 2004
 

 

 
 

Swatting a Fly with a Nuclear Bomb
~ #34

By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Feb. 5, 2004
 

 

 
 

Public-Interest Polling Can Elect
a Clean President
~ #33
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Jan. 9, 2004
 

 

 
 

Elites Overwhelm the People  — Still There is Hope ~ #32
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Jan. 9, 2004
 

 
 

California Recall Wrap-Up ~ #31
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Dec. 10, 2003
 

 
 

Terrorism Fashions ~ #30
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Dec. 4, 2003
 

 
 

California Inherits Florida Mantle  ~ #29
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Last modified Oct. 22, 2003
 

 

 
 

Market Research Needs to Raise the Bar for Poll Vaulting ~ #28
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Oct. 8, 2003
 

 

 
 

California Fiasco — Setting Democracy Back a Century? ~ #27
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Sept. 30, 2003
 

 

 
 

Catching Commercial Pollsters with Hands in the Cookie Jar ~ #26
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Sept. 18, 2003
 

 
 

Will Iraq become another Vietnam? ~ #25
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Sept. 3, 2003
 

 
 

Ethical Politics ~ #24
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
July 15, 2003
 

 
 

Defeating Terrorism  ~ #23
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
July 1, 2003
 

 

 
 

How Bush Lost Non-US Public Opinion  ~ #22
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
June 5, 2003
 

 

 
 

Good Polling Techniques Apply to Questioning Politicians ~ #21
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
May 8, 2003
 

 
 

A Poll the World Needs  ~ #20
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
April 10, 2003
 

 
 

Can Polls Educate People?  ~ #19
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
March 17, 2003
 

 

 
 

Government? What's It Done for Us Lately  ~ #18
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Feb. 20, 2003
 

 

 
 

Issue Disagreements Need Not Stop Collaboration ~ #17
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Feb. 3, 2003
 

 

 
 

Blood for Oil? — Bad Polls Hide Important Truths  ~ #16
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Dec. 26, 2002
 

 
 

Observing Polls Inside-Out  ~ #15
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Dec. 9, 2002
 

 
 

Dirty Little Secret of Polling  ~ #14
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Nov. 11, 2002
 

 
 

Elections, Polling and Democracy  ~ #13
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Oct. 29, 2002
 

 
 

Hawks Flying Higher  ~ #12
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Oct. 24, 2002
 

 
 

Gulf War Revisited  ~ #11
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Oct. 15, 2002
 

 
 

Perpetual War  ~ #10
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Oct. 9, 2002
 

 
 

The Public's Interest Re-Emerges  ~ #9
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Sept. 16, 2002
 

 
 

The Stupidity of Mainstream Media  ~ #8
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Sept. 10, 2002
 

 
 

Free Markets  ~ #7
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Sept. 1, 2002
 

 
 

Not Isolationists, Not Unilateralists  ~ #6
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
Aug. 14, 2002
 

 

 
 

Economic Aid, Military Aid, or Neither  ~ #5
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
July 17, 2002
 

 

 

 

Are Corporations Providing What People Want?  ~ #4
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
and Hazel Henderson
June 24, 2002
 

 

 
 

Will the War on Terror Persist or Evaporate?  ~ #3
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
June 14, 2002
 

 

 
 

Heads-of-State Need Public-Interest Polling  ~ #2
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
May 21, 2002
 

 
 

Telling a Good Poll from a Bad Poll  ~ #1
By Alan F. Kay, Ph.D.
May 21, 2002
 
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