I’m tired of hearing about the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times tracking poll. I’m tired of hearing about the poll from Donald Trump fans such as Reince Priebus, Matt Drudge and Donald Trump himself. They frequently cherry-pick that poll because it consistently shows much better results for Trump than the other […] Read more »
Poll conspiracy theorists target Monmouth’s Patrick Murray
During the Republican presidential primary, frontrunner Donald Trump referred to Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray as “highly respected.” Trump’s supporters apparently now don’t feel the same way. After weeks of Trump’s supporters promulgating conspiracy theories that pollsters have been rigging their results to boost Clinton, legions of Trump fans on […] Read more »
Internet polls are regularly underestimating support for Hillary Clinton
In the midst of the post-convention wave of growing support for Hillary Clinton, a few polls have shown a much closer race. For example, on August 7th, 2016 an ABC/Washington Post telephone poll which collected responses with live interviewers showed Clinton defeating Trump in a head to head matchup by […] Read more »
National Polls Show The Race Tightening — But State Polls Don’t
Hillary Clinton moved into a clear polling lead over Donald Trump just after the Democratic convention, which ended on July 28. … As of last Tuesday, there wasn’t much evidence of an overall shift in the race. Trump was gaining ground in some polls but losing ground in a roughly […] Read more »
Imagine if campaign polls didn’t exist? Why would you?
“Imagine polls don’t exist. Show me evidence Hillary is winning?” That was the challenge that Charlotte radio host Bill Mitchell posed for his Twitter followers just one week ago. It was an interesting request, given that polls have been used to predict elections with relatively strong reliability for almost a […] Read more »
Meet the woman tapped to help save Trump’s campaign
Donald Trump shook up his campaign for the second time this summer, appointing pollster Kellyanne Conway as his new campaign manager on Wednesday. … She founded the polling company/WomanTrend in 1995, and serves as the company’s president. The firms lists as clients a who’s who of the conservative and tea […] Read more »