On Mon, 16 May 2005 19:18:29 -0400, JDG wrote > At 07:52 AM 5/16/2005 -0700, Nick wrote: > >"Taken together, the three Democratic groups make up a larger share of > >registered voters than do the three Republican groups (44% vs. 33%)." > > But the Pew Center seems to have arbitrarily assigned "conservative > Democrats" to the "left-leaning" bloc, and further arbitrarily > decided to come up with three groups for each of "left", "center", > and "right". For example, 80% of the "Upbeats" voted for Bush, but > that group gets assigned to the "center", rather than the "right."
There's nothing particularly arbitrary about the ordering, given that the survey is intended to fit respondents into a continuum of political attitudes. The arbitrary part is where to draw dividing lines, but that's even informed by inflection points in the results. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
