Democracy by the Numbers

G. Elliott Morris

Data-driven writing about politics, public opinion, and democracy from G. Elliott Morris. Excerpts from my book STRENGTH IN NUMBERS and thoughts about the next one...

Created 22 Feb 2019

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It has been over a year since the US State Department said they would answer my FOIA request on fake opinion polls in Iraq
30 Mar 2022 • 7 5
On February 3rd, 2021 I sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the US State Department for internal documents discussing potentially fabricated polling from Iraq. I sent them this request after ...
How public opinion polls shape Supreme Court decisions
26 Mar 2022 • 3 2
Today’s subscribers-only post is about Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. They present a rare opportunity to write on the intersection of current events, polls, and an excerp...
How will American democracy survive? | No. 188 – March 20, 2022
21 Mar 2022 • 7 1
I am ending a week of vacation today, so do not have a long post for you, but I carved out an hour or so for writing because I wanted to send a short post commenting on this piece in the New York Time...
Saturday subscribers-only thread: What the Russia-Ukraine crisis reveals about America's national identity (or lack thereof)
19 Mar 2022 • 4 1
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Why most polls on a no-fly zone over Ukraine are a no-go (so far) | No. 187 – March 13, 2022
14 Mar 2022 • 3 2
One of the reasons empirical journalism is useful when studying people and society is that data offer us an objective barometer with which to measure some phenomenon or — to use the social science jar...
New US Congressional maps are the fairest in a decade — but not quite as fair as people want you to believe
10 Mar 2022 • 7 2
The New York Times has a very nice piece on redistricting out today arguing the 2022 US house map will not be significantly biased toward Republicans. This is thanks to Democrats benefiting from litig...
Do 68% of Russians really support the invasion of Ukraine? | No. 186 – March 6, 2022
07 Mar 2022 • 5 1
On March 4th a Russian blogger named Anatoly Karlin shared the results of a new survey of Russian citizens conducted by “VCIOM,” a pollster that I think calls itself the “Russian Public Opinion Resear...
Is Joe Biden's bounce in approval ratings from Ukraine or his State of the Union address?
05 Mar 2022 • 2 2
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Vladimir Putin, Russia, and public opinion in times of war | No. 185 – February 27, 2022
27 Feb 2022 • 4 0
In 1942, George Gallup — still fresh in his transformation from an advertising researcher in New York to a political pollster — gave an address to the American Philosophical Society titled “How Import...
Saturday subscribers-only thread: Two stories on polls and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
26 Feb 2022 • 2 3
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