The weekly chats with Gallup’s Frank Newport are always interesting. In this week’s “attitude check”, though, Newport clouds the difference between his survey and “other organizations'” surveys.
Gallup lets people answer only better off or worse off, but other surveys allow respondents to say they’re the same as they were four years ago. Newport then says that “worse off still has a plurality” in those other surveys.
Obfuscation! What he has avoided saying is that a majority of the respondents in the three-answer surveys are not worse off. Bad researcher, bad researcher!