Mid-Week Remainders

CBS's Kathy
Frankovic provides some useful historical background on the application of random
probability sampling to political polling and explains why pollsters "make such
a big deal" about it.

ABC's Gary
Langer explains "what we're after" in conducting national trail heat
surveys on the presidential nomination contests.

"Gallup Guru" Frank
Newport has an answer for the many Ron Paul supporters who want to know to
ask why they have not been polled by Gallup.

The Washington Post's
Chris
Cillizza profiles the 29% of adults favor an immediate withdrawal of troops
from Iraq
on the most recent Post/ABC News poll.

The Post's Jennifer
Agiesta blogs an extensive list of historical highs and lows of presidential
job performance to compliment the Peter Baker analysis
I blogged
earlier today.

And speaking of the Bush job approval rating, TNR's Michael Crowley lists "some
other things roughly one in four Americans believe."