Corey Cook, a professor of political science at the University of San Francisco who helped analyze the poll, said it was an "astonishing" number for a mayoral candidate.
Three groups of geeks deserve the love they rarely receive: people who run political polls, those who analyze the polls and those who figure out how to help campaigns connect with voters.
It's easy to November-morning quarterback a pre-election poll, less so to analyze the poll at the time of its release.
With this model it becomes possible to explain the polarization of votes between two candidates, understand the small margin of victories frequently observed for different elections, and analyze the polls' impact in American, Canadian, and Brazilian ballots.
He went on to point out that after analyzing the polling data, it's clear that the American public's deficit fears don't translate into a desire for massive cuts of programs like social security, but are merely a "proxy for general anxiety".
"What jumps out at me from this survey is the emphasis on jobs and economic development," said Walter Stafford, a professor of public policy and urban planning at New York University who analyzed the poll for the Urban League.
Those mixed feelings produced something of a paradox: a "wasteful event that worked out," in the words of José Roberto de Toledo, a columnist for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, who analyzed the poll.
The ugly little secret being -- spending at the Pentagon will rise and nobody needs talk about Social Security or Medicare until experts have analyzed the polls on this present skirmish at least a gazilliondy times.
By analyzing the poll results, we've come up with some insights about what we think is the best way forward to achieve relationship recognition and marriage in the future, and they sound an awful lot like that ad from Maine.
"Such a dramatic shift, driven heavily by disillusionment among young men, suggests a deep anger and desire for change that might easily lead to another round of public protests against the government, as was seen in 2011 during Prime Minister Netanyahu's previous term," wrote Times of Israel reporter Stephan Miller in analyzing the poll.
