But only a supreme partisan, surveying this century-long conflict, could pile the blame on only one side.Honest differences, and dishonest onesNone of this is to imply that Mr Bush should not work more urgently to put the missing flesh on his June "vision" of a free Palestine living alongside Israel in borders based on those of 1967.
The independent and non-partisan survey, based on open-source data, including research on the ground, records more than 8,600 air attacks between March 2015, when the Saudi-led campaign began, and the end of August this year.
While the PPP works with Democrats, their research is generally in line with non-partisan surveys, such as a recent Quinnipiac University poll in Ohio that found voters don't like the decision of Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) to back the court blockade.
The Pollster poll tracking model, based on all of the publicly released polls but calibrated to track the best performing non-partisan surveys, continues to give Ernst a very slight advantage -- just a percentage point and a half (as of this writing).
But to the informed consumer hoping for greater elucidation, Mr. Seifert's partisan, oversimplified survey falls short.
The same poll he offered as proof of the Times' partisan stance, surveyed that only 27% of Americans said they were satisfied with the way things are going in the United States.
To reduce the effects of one-time polls that were conducted with a specific bias and whose results could be outliers, the model also groups those partisan pollsters who survey only once in a state into sets of Republican or Democratic pollsters.
First, to reduce the effects of one-time polls that were conducted with a specific bias and whose results could be outliers, the model groups partisan pollsters who survey only once in a state into two sets of Republican or Democratic pollsters.
While Obamacare remains a source of partisan contention, and survey results released by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation on Thursday reinforce that Democrats generally favor the Affordable Care Act, Republicans generally don't like it and more people overall think it's bad than good.
But the growth of partisan polls and surveys using nontraditional methodologies has created a far greater potential for bias in that average.
The partisan divide in the survey, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, was even starker: 89 percent of Republicans favored allowing more offshore drilling as opposed to 50 percent of Democrats, with independents falling in between at 64 percent.
