Category: Polls in the News

Over the weekend, both Time and Newsweek magazines released surveys that confirm results from other organizations in the field last week.  NewsweRead More…

Two news polls today on the response to Hurricane Katrina: another one-night update from SurveyUSA and a three-night survey just completed by AP-IPSORead More…

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The Pew Research Center has just released results of another survey conducted over the last two nights (9/6-7, n=1,000 adultRead More…

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Three new polls out this morning featuring job ratings of George W. Bush’s handling of the response to Hurricane Katrina.&nbRead More…

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The Gallup Organization today released results from a new poll on the response to Hurricane Katrina, sponsored by CNN and USRead More…

[Support Katrina relief!] SurveyUSA’s Jay Leve emailed with some strong objections to my characterizations earlier today of their ongoing trackingRead More…

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Obviously, we have all been horrified by the human tragedy wrought by Hurrican Katrina.  As a pollster and student of pRead More…

The folks at National Journal’s Hotline raised an interesting question yesterday.  How useful are the head-to-head preference polls being releaseRead More…

The must-read for today is the NY Times op-ed piece, by Pew’s Andrew Kohut and Peter Hoey, that compares public opinion and major events during the fRead More…