Polling and social security
Paul has a very nice comparison of question framing, social security, and the interpretation of poll results at the Public Brewery. He shows how Fox frames questions in a way that is more likely to get responses in favor of Bush’s plan, while ABC/WP pollsters have a more neutral frame. He also compares the leads used in the poll stories.
This is a very good example. I’m going to bookmark it for the next time I teach American Government in Comparative Perspective (yes, I do teach that occasionally, as strange as it seems).
Heh. Thank you. Note that I never actually called the ABC/WP versions “neutral” in comparison to the FOX versions. Implied, maybe…
You’re right. That was my inference based on the wording and the response to the two questions (and the way you juxtaposed the two).