On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, we speak with Courtney Kennedy, Director of Survey Research for Pew Research Center. The topic on the table is why polls do not include the same number of Republicans and Democrats. And, yes, they are representative. Then, we turn to sample size. A […] Read more »
Why public opinion polls don’t include the same number of Republicans and Democrats
Newcomers to polling sometimes assume that if you are asking Americans questions about politics, it’s only fair to include an equal number of Republicans and Democrats. While this notion makes some sense on the surface, it’s based on a misunderstanding of what polling is intended to do. The goal of […] Read more »
Trump’s pollster releases the worst impeachment poll ever
… Trump on Thursday promoted a new McLaughlin poll on impeachment. The headline for McLaughlin and Trump was that Americans saw impeachment as an effort to prevent Trump’s reelection, believed Trump shouldn’t cooperate with it and said Democrats are wasting everyone’s time. How did McLaughlin arrive at these results? CONT. […] Read more »
Behind The Fox News Poll
This week, Bret is joined by two members of the FOX News Decision Team, Chris Anderson President of Beacon Research and Daron Shaw, University Distinguished Teaching Professor at University of Texas. They discuss how FOX News conducts it’s polling, what voters can take away from recent polls and more. The […] Read more »
True or False? A look at President Trump’s criticism of a recent Fox News Poll
On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, President Donald Trump recently blasted the Fox News Poll after it showed majority support for impeachment. Was the criticism warranted? And, following the president’s criticism, the New York Post released its own analysis of the poll. But, was that analysis scientifically rigorous and […] Read more »
Trump is at war with statistics — and it’s going about as well as you’d imagine
… “Now the do-nothing Democrat con artists and scammers are getting desperate,” Trump said in Minneapolis. “Thirteen months, they got to move fast because they’re not beating us at the polls and they know it despite the phony, despite the phony polls that you see all the time. They have […] Read more »