[From Bill Williams UMKC 18 December 2002 5:00PM CST]
Rick,
You may be correct about the phantom income voting behavior survey. I
thought the survey people had taken steps to correct survey bias. THere was
the famous telephone poll conducted prior to the 1932 election which
predicted that Hoover would win in a landslide. Of course, most people with
a telephone at that time had high incomes, so there was a bias built into
the poll. I've been assuming that what people reported couldn't possibly be
true, but then all I've got to go on is the NPR soundbite.
best
bill williiams