The Newsweek Poll
Newsweek Magazine released a survey last night, “the first national telephone poll using a fresh sample” of all registered voters nationally since TRead More…
Year: 2004
Democracy Corps on Debates
Just a quick update about another before-and-after debate poll conducted online last night by Knowledge Networks, this one on behalf of Democratic polRead More…
Off Topic: Fox News Hacked?
A break from polling for a moment.
Josh Marshall has been posting this afternoon (here, here and here) about a mysterious story about John Kerry that Read More…
The First Debate: Who Won?
Murphy’s Law might explain why a week after starting a blog, my home DSL and phone service has been out for three days running (perhaps that should beRead More…
Debates II: Instant Polls
As I mentioned in the last post, past history shows that the media’s coverage of presidential debates typically has more impact on voter preference Read More…
Debates: Focus Groups as Reality TV
Ok, so apparently, MSNBC has pulled the plug on its plan to have Republican Pollster Frank Luntz conduct a live focus group on MSNBC among uncertain vRead More…
MoveOn vs. Gallup
I have to admit I didn’t see the MoveOn.org newspaper ad attacking Gallup until very late last night. And when I did I was somewhat taken aback by Read More…
Why & How Pollsters Weight, Part I
I want to return to the issue of weighting, beginning with a question commenter Ted H: What puzzles me about the idea of weighting by party ID is thRead More…
Good Analysis of Post/ABC Poll
Unfortunately, the crush of time has prevented me from doing much analysis of the recent surveys beyond the horse race numbers, and yet I’ve also arRead More…
How do pollsters select “likely voters?”
I am currently at work on a detailed series of postings on how pollsters select likely voters. Clicking on this link will display short excerpts of Read More…