The Pollster.com Disclosure Project

My favorite Democrat, pollster Mark Blumenthal, has been "nitpicking" opinion polls for some time now, and explaining the methods and shortcomings of polls with a great series of posts.  Now he’s formalizing his critiques:

So I have come to this conclusion: Starting today we will
begin to formally request answers to a limited but fundamental set of
methodological questions for every public poll asking about
the primary election released in, for now, a limited set of
states: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or for the nation as a whole.
We are starting today with requests emailed to the Iowa pollsters and will work
our way through the other early states and national polls over the next few
weeks, expanding to other states as our time and resources allow.

This is fabulous!–about as close to primary source material as a student of survey research can get, short of interning with Blumenthal.  Read this stuff, from now through the election!

Update (28 September).  The Disclosure Project is gathering momenturm.