In November, Gallup reported that just a bare majority of Americans would rather the government approve new gun laws instead of only enforcing existing laws. The previous month, however, referring to the very same poll (but different questions), Gallup came to a starkly different conclusion: “The great majority of Americans […] Read more »
Doug Jones Is Just A Normal Polling Error Away From A Win In Alabama
… The polls in Alabama have swung back and forth between Moore and Jones over the past month. The Washington Post first reported on allegations against Moore on Nov. 9, and after that, surveys indicated that the race was moving in Jones’s direction. He held an average advantage of 5 […] Read more »
Maurice Carroll, Political Reporter and Pollster, Dies at 86
Maurice Carroll, who brought streetwise insights to his political reporting for a string of major newspapers, and who later became the public face of the emerging Quinnipiac University poll, died on Wednesday in Convent Station, N.J. He was 86. … His reporting included an eyewitness account from Dallas of the […] Read more »
ABC reprimands producer for giving data to Trump campaign
ABC News said it has reprimanded its top producer for investigative reporting for giving Donald Trump’s presidential campaign proprietary exit polling data on election night 2016. CONT. Michael Calderone, Politico Read more »
Maurice ‘Mickey’ Carroll, reporter, educator, voice of the Quinnipiac Poll
Former Newsday reporter Maurice “Mickey” Carroll, who competed with giants of New York journalism and witnessed the shooting of President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, died Wednesday. Carroll was 86. He died of colon cancer at his family home in Convent Station, New Jersey, relatives said. He worked for the Quinnipiac […] Read more »
Is Roy Moore winning? Don’t ask the pollsters
… For all the national attention and the millions of dollars spent to win the seat, there’s relatively little public polling in the contest. Only three public surveys in the average have been conducted since the Thanksgiving holiday, and odds are you’ve never heard of two of the three pollsters. […] Read more »