A new national Quinnipiac University poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg all lead President Donald Trump by significant margins in potential 2020 matchups. … The Quinnipiac poll was the […] Read more »
Is there still time for a candidate to surge?
The Democratic presidential field is getting easier to sort into categories. There are the 10 candidates who made the September debate and the 10 candidates who didn’t. There are the candidates who want to talk about poll numbers and the candidates who say that polling in a Democratic primary has […] Read more »
What polls really tell us about the state of the presidential race
With Labor Day almost here, the traditional start of the campaign season, a raft of new polls has arrived, giving insights into which candidates have the lead but also why and what Americans think about the issues the country faces. It’s commonplace for people to say they don’t trust polls […] Read more »
Why You Can’t Volunteer for Election Polls, and Other Polling Facts
Election polls have always been interesting. But this year, they have become official players in the Democratic presidential primary race, because polling badly means you don’t get to debate. It is a bitter reality for the candidates who failed to qualify for next month’s debate, and griping has been in […] Read more »
Poll Hub: Cut the Criteria
All eyes turned to the polls this week as the qualification deadline for the third Democratic Primary Debate came and went. But, should polls be used as debate criteria? That’s the question we pick up on in this week’s episode of Poll Hub. Then, presidential job approval ratings are often […] Read more »
The 2020 Democratic Candidates and Their Coalitions
Two topics have dominated the political dialogue this week: Bedbugs (who has them — or doesn’t — and who reacted poorly to being described as one) and one poll (Monmouth), which showed Biden’s lead in the race for Democratic nomination slipping. Needless to say, I’m not particularly interested in diving […] Read more »