At the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research this week we’re giving a paper by Julie E. Phelan and Gary Langer on the concurrent and predictive validity of the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index, as well as presentations on the 2010 midterm elections and public opinion in Yemen. Gary Langer also served as moderator of the conference’s plenary session on immigration, with panelists Henry Cisneros, former HUD secretary and mayor of San Antonio; Prof. Rodolpho de la Garza of Columbia University; and Frank Newport of the Gallup Organization.