In the Washington Post this morning, Ken Ballen and Patrick Doherty write (”The Iranian People Speak”) about a pre-election poll conducted by Terror Free Tomorrow: The Center for Public Opinion that purported to show Ahmadinejad leading by a more than 2 to 1 margin. I haven’t looked at the poll in depth yet, but Gary Langer, ABC’s ace polling analyst, has, and his commentary about its conclusions is well worth reading. Of note:
The TFT poll’s flaws are evident in the fact that half its respondents didn’t express a vote preference at all—a result that makes evaluation of its data in hindsight a highly fraught exercise.