It seems like I get asked a lot more about the effect of cell phones on polling than I do about the different languages American voters speak. I’ve written before about the problem with polling Latino voters in English only. But a recent poll of mine — mentioned in a Matier and Ross column — […]

Conservative columnist David Brooks is usually a worthy and insightful adversary. So I was surprised by his attempt in today’s column to portray Senator Obama’s rhetorical skills as a net negative.
The basic argument went something like this:
Sure, he’s a great speaker… “When I first heard this sort of radically optimistic speech in Iowa,” Brooks writes, […]