Hey everyone, remember how polling sucks and you can’t trust it anymore because no one answers polls these days and you have a plethora of sketchy outfits spitting out garbage numbers? Back in late 2012, Dr. Drew Linzer—one of the top political statisticians in the country—and I chatted about the […] Read more »
The Founder Of Daily Kos Just Launched A Massive New Polling Project
Markos Moulitsas is a singular success story of the new media business. After the Army and college, he founded the original, ultimate liberal group blog, Daily Kos in 2002, which has survived all competitors and is now basically the last of its kind. He co-founded the sports site SBNation in […] Read more »
Politics & Polls podcast: Social Research in the Digital Age
From smart phones to social media, digital technology has changed the way we live — allowing for new explorations of human behavior. Big data now enables scientists to process data about human behavior on a scale never before imaginable. In this episode, Professors Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang interview Matt […] Read more »
How Do You Vote? 50 Million Google Images Give a Clue
What vehicle is most strongly associated with Republican voting districts? Extended-cab pickup trucks. For Democratic districts? Sedans. Those conclusions may not be particularly surprising. After all, market researchers and political analysts have studied such things for decades. But what is surprising is how researchers working on an ambitious project based […] Read more »
Can Twitter Predict Elections?
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, one couldn’t be blamed for looking beyond polls for indicators about who might be favored in difficult-to-predict elections. That’s not necessarily to supplant polling, which we still see as the best way to measure an electorate and its intentions, but rather to augment […] Read more »
Did the Clinton campaign really stop polling at the end?
An explosive allegation from prominent Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg last week is sparking a new wave of criticism and recriminations about Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The charge — that the campaign went the final three weeks of last year’s presidential election without polling the battleground states — amounts to an accusation […] Read more »