President Donald Trump’s approval ratings among African Americans have declined, not “doubled,” as the president claimed in a recent tweet. The source of Trump’s boast appears to be a misreading of data from the online polling firm SurveyMonkey. Weekly surveys conducted by that organization show that his approval rating among […] Read more »
SurveyMonkey is expected to go public later this year
The 19-year-old polling company SurveyMonkey is preparing to go public later this year, according to people familiar with the company’s plans, accelerating its conversations with bankers ahead of what would be one of 2018’s most closely-watched IPOs. CONT. Theodore Schleifer, Recode Read more »
Trump Approval Lower Than U.S. Mood Might Predict
President Donald Trump’s 38% job approval rating in Gallup’s latest weekly average is well below what would be expected based on the relationship between job approval and Americans’ views of the economy and their level of satisfaction with the direction of the country for recent presidents. A Gallup analysis of […] Read more »
Russian Pollster to Skip Presidential Vote Amid Kremlin Squeeze
Russia’s main independent pollster said it has stopped publishing surveys related to the March presidential election for fear of legal problems under a Kremlin-backed law that designated the group a “foreign agent.” CONT. Ilya Arkhipov, Bloomberg Read more »
Trump tweeted his black approval rating has doubled. It hasn’t.
President Donald Trump bragged on Twitter that his approval rating with black Americans has doubled. It hasn’t. Only 15% of black Americans said they approved of Trump’s job performance in the days following his inauguration last January — and it’s only gone downhill from there. CONT. Ryan Struyk, CNN Unemployment […] Read more »
Still Listening: The State of Telephone Surveys
Since the late 1980s, telephone surveys have been Gallup’s primary data collection method for surveying U.S. adults. The survey research field — and the way people communicate — has changed a lot since then. Today researchers have a wide range of methodological options available to them in addition to telephone […] Read more »