During a webinar and telephonic briefing discussion hosted by NCLR yesterday, experts on political polling and Latino voters analyzed how the national exit polls and many polls throughout the election cycle consistently miss the mark when it comes to Latino voters – and discussed why that is problematic for good […] Read more »
Top Pollsters Expect Clinton To Win
Top public election pollsters are almost unanimous in their belief that Hillary Clinton will be the next president and are pretty sure that Republicans will retain control of the House. But they’re much less sure about who will control the next Senate. Many also anticipate a bigger gap than usual […] Read more »
How low can Trump go in the polls?
Polls conducted since the first presidential debate last month put Donald Trump on a pace to earn a smaller percentage of the vote than any major-party nominee in at least 20 years. … For much of the presidential campaign, the focus has been on Trump’s apparent ceiling: He has been […] Read more »
Putting post-debate ‘flash polls’ into perspective
Prize fights and Olympic contests have judges, but debates between candidates for public office in the U.S. are ultimately judged by the voters. In the aftermath of presidential debates, there is intense interest in gauging “who won.” How can we know the answer to that question? CONT. Scott Keeter, Pew Read more »
Where The Race Stands With Three Weeks To Go
Breathe deeply. The election will be over in 23 days. Well, unless there’s a recount. Or unless one of the candidates refuses to accept the results of the election, provoking a Constitutional crisis and undermining the norms that have made the United States the world’s leading democracy for the past […] Read more »
Who Is to Blame for Trump’s Polling?
If you ask the candidate, anyone or anything other than himself is to blame for his standing in the polls. New York Times Read more »