Interesting that Sawant and the SAP, the two entities most responsible for putting the issue on the radar screens of voters in the first place, have the lowest credibility. Does that indicate some sort of disconnect (i.e. voters are in favor of the message, but don't necessarily trust the messengers)?

Just slightly less credible than an organization nobody has ever heard of.

Within the margin of error, barely or not, means the difference is meaningless.

New Stranger slogan: "We beat both the Times & the Socialist Alternative Party!"

Better Read than Dead like the Suburban Times!

@1 I'm guessing the disconnect between message and messenger.

There were a couple of stories last year about how if you asked folks if they liked Obamacare most said no, but if you asked if they liked the Affordable Care Act the same folks said yes.

New Stranger slogan: we're less credible than Ed Murray, but that won't phase us.

Who exactly is "fast food workers"?
I know there are people who are fast food workers, but I wasn't aware of an organized group with that title.
At best, that is public sentiment, anecdotes with a dash of spin based on the entity actually reporting what "fast food workers" has to say.

I think the chart also suggest that the people who responded to the poll didn't actually know what good questions look like (which isn't their job), and the writers of the poll questions didn't have a clue what they wanted other than to make a poll (which, I suppose, is their job.)

(This is not an attack on people who work in fast food, as much as an attack on people who think polls should be used for anything other than generating news stories.)

"actually, the most common reply we got was some insult calling us a 'horses-ass' ...just for asking, i guess"

@10 - hilarious.
If we have been deemed more credible it is because we have stood on the shoulders of giants.

@9 real question- what was your issue with the question phrasing?

One out of every five likely voters considers fast food workers "extremely credible" on this issue. That's huge. That means voters place a ton of trust in the workers most affected by poverty wages...

It actually means there are a shit-ton of people working in fast food. They, with their friends & family, now constitute a sizable portion of any random sample of potential voters. Ignore this at your peril.

@10 slog comment of the year!

18% of the respondents thought The Stranger was "Not at all credible."

Making you simultaneously thought of as the third LEAST credible source.

How about Kshama Sawant and Plan C?

Any word yet?

@10: all kinds of awesome.

@13, all too true.