Quincy's poll on negotiations in Ukraine is fine

UC San Diego professor Branislav Slantchev's criticism reveals a common misundertanding about polling and language.

The Quincy Institute is promoting recent polling which indicates that 69% of Americans “would support the US urging Ukraine to engage in negotiations ASAP.” And predictably, they’re being smeared as agents of the Kremlin for it.

Yesterday, however, UC San Diego professor of political science Branislav Slantchev came up with a rare justification for this …