Pollster Mark Blumenthal reported that "It is important to note that what ARG does .. is very different from the way other pollsters ask about party ID.
In 2004, Gallup interviewed ARG about a poor prediction (22 points adrift) in the Maryland Democratic primary and found their "likely voter" model was "based on just the one question, [which] is a relatively simple approach to classifying voters."[REF] .