After more than a half-century of official United States hostility toward Cuba punctuated by a comprehensive trade embargo, a majority of Americans — and an even greater majority of Floridians, home to this country’s largest Cuban-American population — now favor normalizing relations or engaging more directly with the Cuban government, […] Read more »
Latin America gets its own 538.com, and it beats the polls in Chile
The 2012 presidential election in the United States saw an increase in the popularity of poll aggregators, such as Drew Linzer at Votamatic, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight and Sam Wang at Princeton Election Consortium. … They proved that aggregating polls could be more useful than using a single poll to […] Read more »
Free access to AmericasBarometer surveys
We are very pleased to announce that the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) is now granting unrestricted world-wide access to the AmericasBarometer surveys (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012). This means that users anywhere in the world may now download the SPSS and Stata country-based survey files without restriction, […] Read more »