On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, tried to rig online “polls” in favor of Trump. The story isn’t the latest nefarious revelation to emerge from Cohen’s downfall. But the scandal here is less that Cohen tried to manipulate online popularity contests, […] Read more »
FAQ: Why you can be largely confident in public political polling
… We have dubbed this article an FAQ — responses to frequently asked questions — but, in the modern style of political discourse, it’s really meant to be an FOC — a debunking of frequently offered complaints. Those who deal with polling regularly, like me, hear thematically consistent complaints and […] Read more »
Cohen says he rigged online polls for Trump in 2014, 2015
President Donald Trump’s estranged former lawyer acknowledged Thursday that he paid a technology company to rig Trump’s standing in two online polls before the presidential campaign. Michael Cohen tweeted that “what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of” Trump. CONT. Associated Press Read more »
Trump Job Approval Sets New Record for Polarization
The average 79-percentage-point difference between Republicans’ and Democrats’ job approval ratings of President Donald Trump during his second year in office is the largest Gallup has measured in any presidential year to date. The prior record of 77 points was recorded in President Barack Obama’s eighth year in office. CONT. […] Read more »
11th Annual Dubious Polling Awards
Every January, iMediaEthics’ polling director David W. Moore assembles the top ten “Dubious Polling” Awards for iMediaEthics. The tongue-in-cheek awards “honor” the previous year’s most questionable actions in media polling news. The 2019 awards are the 11th in this series. CONT. iMediaEthics Read more »
The real value of Paul Manafort’s polling data
… When Paul Manafort allegedly shared “polling data” with Konstantin V. Kilimnik, a Russian businessman and former military interpreter who the FBI says has “ties to a Russian intelligence service,” many Americans may have shrugged and thought “so what?” To them, polling data is the result of simple surveys that […] Read more »