MPG's Steve Koczela testifies on regional ballot initiatives for transportation
On June 18, 2019, The MassINC Polling Group’s President Steve Koczela testified before the Massachusetts State Legislature’s Joint Committee on Revenue about polling and focus groups MPG has conducted on regional ballot initiatives for transportation.
The Topline: A Year in Review
Polling is an act of political resistance. It agglomerates the messy and inconvenient opinions of everyday people, kneads them into a whole, and forces them through the door into the air-conditioned echo chambers of political elites. This is not newly true, it’s just newly apparent.” That’s from a CommonWealth Magazine piece I wrote early this year, arguing why polling is more important now than ever. A few readers called it a polling manifesto. I’ll take it.
The Topline - The Commuter Rail, Going Nowhere, Late
Two-thirds of commuter rails trains were late in February. The data shows it's actually worse than it sounds.
The Topline: Where is Charlie on the M(B)TA?
The results of our new MBTA poll for WBUR. Plus, tackling the problem of fabricated data in surveys.