[Lincolnparkdc] [neighbors-ch] [The Washington Post] Washingtonians want Commanders to return to D.C., Post-Schar School poll finds

[James Grimaldi]

This Washington Post-Schar School poll was conducted by telephone April
19-29, 2024, among a random sample of 1,683 adult residents in the
Washington, D.C. area with 81 percent interviewed by live callers,
including 60 percent on cellphones and 21 percent on landlines; 19 percent
completed the survey online via a cellphone text invitation. Overall
results for the D.C. area have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2
percentage points, including design effects due to weighting. The survey
interviewed 655 adults in D.C., 522 in Northern Virginia and 506 in
suburban Maryland; the error margin for results in each subregion is plus
or minus 5.1 to 5.7 percentage points. Sampling, field work and data
processing by Braun Research of Princeton, N.J.
<https://www.braunresearch.com/>

Clearly, the Post should have hired the Ugoretz polling firm, as it has
vastly more experience in polling matters, apparently

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 3:45 PM Mark Ugoretz <mugoretz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Instead of subsidizing a football team, I would prefer DC subsidize a
> drive through car wash on Capitol Hill.
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> On May 22, 2024, at 3:25 PM, Sanju Misra <sanjumisra at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have not read it.  But if Mark's description is accurate, then what a
> meaningless poll.  Poll DC taxpayers only and specifically ask if they are
> willing to have tax dollars used to build a stadium for a billionaire.  My
> response would be "Absolutely not!"
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> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 11:23 AM Mark Ugoretz <mugoretz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Kind of a dumb article that misapprehends support for public financing
>> and increase taxes and city service fees.
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>> It contends that 76% of DC residents support the team returning to DC but
>> suggests also that most of these are “fans” which raises. the question of
>> who actually was polled.
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>> It also claims that
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>> "City residents are now more open to public funding of a stadium. In
>> 2022, two-thirds of D.C. residents opposed using city funds to help finance
>> a new stadium in the District; now residents are split on the issue.”
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>> However, it does not indicate how many residents are willing to pay for
>> the stadium through a tax increase, higher city “service fees” and other
>> revenue raisers, merely that fewer residents oppose “public funding”
>> which generally means no tax increases and get the money from somebody else.
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>> The poll only sampled a little over 1,600 residents from the entire DMV
>> area not just DC.  *Only 655 DC residents out of 700,000 were polled *with
>> a margin of error of over 5%. That’s a minimal sample and an excessive
>> margin of error and probably worthless.
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>> The article also contends that "Last year, 44 percent wanted it in the
>> city. This year, it has grown to 51 percent” but that’s only a 7%
>> increase and the article does not state whether the earlier polling
>> included a greater sample than the minimalist sample noted here.  If one
>> applies the polls admitted 5% margin of error the conclusion is
>> inconclusive.
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>> I suggest a poll of a very substantially higher sampling of DC residents
>> asked question of whether they would *support public financing to
>> subsidize the return of the Commanders to the RFK site if it meant an
>> increase in taxes or city service fees* spread among all income groups
>> (taxing the rich doesn’t bring in enough money - there are not enough
>> billionaires.)
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>> To properly analyze this issue of public financing, I suggest the mantra
>> popular during consideration of the 1986 tax reform act, the last major
>> comprehensive tax reform enacted:  *“Don’t **tax me.  Don’t tax thee.”
>>  Tax that fellow behind the tree."*
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>> On May 22, 2024, at 9:56 AM, James Grimaldi <jamesvgrimaldi at gmail.com>
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>> Check out this article:
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>> Support for a new stadium in Washington is higher among Commanders fans
>> and District residents.
>> https://wapo.st/3wKUE56
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