Eleanor Singer, academic survey researcher and research professor emerita of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR), died on June 3, 2017. She was 87. … A self-proclaimed “social psychologist at heart,” Singer was a respected authority on American public opinion and the […] Read more »
Polling Matters podcast: Reviewing this weekend’s UK polls
Keiran Pedley is joined by Ben Walker from Britain Elects to discuss the weekend’s polls as the campaign enters the final week. Polling Matters Read more »
Will turnout weighting prove to be the pollsters’ Achilles heel in #GE2017?
The 2017 election campaign has confounded expectations in many ways, none more so than Labour’s continuing surge in the opinion polls. From an average vote share of around 26% at the start of the campaign, they now stand at an average of 36% in the polls conducted over the past […] Read more »
Are The U.K. Polls Skewed?
In April, when U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May called for a “snap” general election for June 8, polls showed her Conservatives with an average lead of 17 percentage points over Labour. … Recent surveys show Labour zooming up in the polls and Conservatives having declined somewhat (although some of Labour’s […] Read more »
Trump’s Approval Rating Decline Isn’t That Big Compared With Predecessors’ Drops
Even though President Trump took office with record-low approval ratings, multiple polls (and, accordingly, news reports) have shown his approval rating dipping even further. … While his approval rating has fallen and the gap between approval and disapproval has widened considerably, it has not shifted in any extraordinary sense. CONT. […] Read more »
UK election: The pollsters’ experimental election
… From the pollsters’ point of view this is an experimental election. We all got it wrong in 2015 and we are all trying different methods to get it right this year. … There are lots of differences between how different polling companies are doing their sums. Some poll online, […] Read more »