Welcome to Public Opinion Pros An Online Magazine for the Polling Professional (and Everybody Else)-April 2005

	FEATURES “Surfing Alone”: Internet Communities, Public Opinion, and Civic Participation By Frank Louis Rusciano
	Revisiting a website is a poor substitute for a link to a physical place one would die defending. (more)
	Ghosts in the Machine: Media Technology and Social Capital By Brian Jones
	Internet time is positively associated with voluntary association—a lot more association. (more)
	Political Access: The Internet as a Source of Campaign Information By Kenneth Winneg and Natalie Jomini Stroud
	A great deal of talk about the use of the internet in the 2004 Democratic primary campaign has left many unanswered questions. (more)
	FROM THE FIELD What's Next?: The California Governor's Recall and Its Polling Dilemmas By Mark Baldassare
	An almost complete lack of precedent in removing a governor in any state recall election presented big challenges to California pollsters. (more)
	UP-AND-COMING Future pollsters show their stuff...(more)
	DEPARTMENTS
		From the Editor
		Electronic Presence By Lisa Ferraro Parmelee
		Op-Ed
		Alert the Media: Teach Journalists About Polls By Frederic I. Solop and Kristi K. Hagen
		Columns
		What Do I Know? By John Benson
		Letters to the Editor
		Public Opinion Pros would like to hear from you.
		In Print
		Why Do Survey Questions Produce Response Error? A Sociolinguistic Perspective By Gordon B. Willis
		An excerpt from Cognitive Interviewing: A Tool for Improving Questionnaire Design