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Public Opinion Watch covers newly released polls, as well as key newspaper and magazine articles that make use of polling data. If you’ve ever wondered what to make of the blizzard of survey data covered in the newspapers— and whether the newspapers themselves know what they’re talking about— you’ll want to check out this feature on a regular basis. Each edition will combine noteworthy findings and trends from the latest polling data with analysis of the misinterpretations and misrepresentations to which polling data are so often subject.

Browse a complete listing of Public Opinion Watch opinion pieces for 2006:

April 19, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of April 10–16, 2006.

• Updating the 2006 Election Outlook
• Recoloring the Political Map
• The Reemergence of the Gender Gap

April 12, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of April 3–9, 2006.

• Oh, Those Liberal College Students!
• The Incredible Shrinking National Security Gap

April 5, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of March 27–April 2, 2006.

• What Does the Public Want on Immigration?

March 29, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of March 20–26, 2006.

• 2006 Election Outlook: The Macro and the Micro

March 23, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of March 13–19, 2006.

• The Iraq War, Three Years On
• The Economy, Five Years On
• 2006 Campaign Watch

March 15, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of March 6–12, 2006.

• Views of Bush and the Iraq War Hit New Lows
• The UN: Good Idea, Bad Execution

March 8, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of February 27–March 5, 2006.

• The Great Bail-Out
• Pessimism Deepens on Iraq

March 1, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of February 20–26, 2006.

• Unmarried America: Demographics and Attitudes
• How Low Can He Go?

February 22, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of February 13–19, 2006.

• Understanding Suburban Politics
• No Improvement in Sight for GOP

February 15, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of February 6–12, 2006.

• 2006 Outlook
• More on Women Voters

February 9, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of January 30–February 5, 2006.

• Time to Get Back to Health Care Reform
• Single, Working, and Highly Educated Women and the Progressive Coalition

February 1, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of January 23–29, 2006.

• A Failed Presidency
• The Minority Vote and the Progressive Coalition

January 25, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of January 16–22, 2006.

• Values to the Left of Me, Values to the Right of Me, and Nary a Strategy in Sight
• Party Identification Shifts toward Democrats

January 19, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of January 9–15, 2006.

• Will the Real White Working Class Please Stand Up (Again)?
• Growing Democratic Issue Advantage

January 11, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the week of January 2–8, 2006.

• Forecast for Incumbents: Bad to Very Bad
• Hispanics Bailing Out on GOP
• Public Opinion on the Minimum Wage
• Maybe People Don’t Think the Economy Is So Great Because It Isn’t So Great

January 4, 2006
Covering polls and related articles from the weeks of December 19, 2005–January 1, 2006.

• Whither the Center in 2006?
• Americans Feeling Better (But Not Good) about the Economy

Ruy Teixeira is a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress. The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author. Click here to sign up to receive weekly e-mails of POW.