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net%20sampling%20gallup%22
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& Babyboom, p. 4.
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2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/mag
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Many Reject Party Politics, Lean Libertarian," USA
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57. "The X Files: An Interview with Kellyanne
63. We received 37 responses from our sample pop-
Fitzpatrick," Hoover Digest, no. 2, 1998, http://www.
ulation of about 65 Cato policy scholars and interns.
hooverdigest.org/982/fitzpatrick.html.
This gave us an error rate of 8.6 percent at p = .10,
10.6 percent at p = .5. Not every respondent who
58. Jackie Calmes, "Stem-Cell Issue: Republicans'
began the survey completed it. Only 23 respondents
Undoing?" Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2006.
answered the last question about ideology: 20 self-
identified as libertarian, 1 as conservative, 1 as liber-
59. Eric O'Keefe and Aaron Steelman, "The End
al, and 1 as progressive. Not every person answered
of Representation: How Congress Stifles Electoral
every question in the survey. Some respondents
Competition," Cato Institute Policy Analysis no.
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279, August 20, 1997.
to the question design.
60. Inside Politics, CNN, August 31, 2001.
64. We received 106 responses from our sample popu-
lation of about 150 Heritage policy scholars and in-
61. See Morris Fiorina and Jon Krosnick, "The
terns. This gave us an error rate of 5.2 percent at p = .5.
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