Some national polls are showing President Donald Trump’s job approval rating on the decline. Has the president’s rating really been bouncing up and down or is it all in the timing? The NPR/Marist Poll does show a drop in the president’s approval score among those in one very significant part […] Read more »
Primary Season Was Full of Surprises. Here’s Why the Polls Missed Some of Them.
Ayanna Pressley’s blowout victory over a 10-term congressman last week was the latest example of a trend that has become abundantly clear: 2018 is the year of the progressive insurgent, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Andrew Gillum. But if you relied exclusively on polls, you may not have seen these results […] Read more »
Adam Clymer, major-league political reporter, editor and pollster, dies at 81
Adam Clymer, who covered congressional intrigue, eight presidential campaigns and the downfall of both Nikita S. Khrushchev and Richard M. Nixon as a reporter and editor for The New York Times and other newspapers, died early Monday at his home in Washington. He was 81. … After years as a […] Read more »
The polls are coming: Four tips for sorting through the wave of pre-election polls this fall
Labor Day has passed, which in an election year means Americans are about to become awash in polls tapping the mood of voters as they decide which candidate to support in 435 congressional districts and dozens of U.S. Senate and governor’s elections on Nov. 6. … What lessons can election […] Read more »
Midterm Poll-iferation
Rack ‘em up! The Marist Poll and battleground state polling partner NBC News have completed a dozen state polls since the beginning of the summer. On tap this week – Missouri, Indiana, and Tennessee. On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, the team takes a close look at the dynamics […] Read more »
They’ll do it live: The New York Times is going beyond poll results and showing how the numerical sausage gets made
You may have heard there are some important elections coming up in the United States — ones that might have an impact on how some minor governance issues we’ve been having could play out. The return of big elections means the return of large-scale election polling, and if you were […] Read more »