The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research – the world’s largest public opinion archive – will move from the University of Connecticut to Cornell University, where it will be known as the Roper Center at Cornell University, and casually as Roper@Cornell. CONT. Cornell University Read more »
Carly Fiorina will appear in top-tier CNN Reagan Library debate
… Thursday marked the close of the two-month window for determining eligibility based on averages of national polls. The results were based on 14 polls including interviews with more than 6,000 potential Republican primary voters. The top 10 candidates overall — plus Fiorina, whose average support places her within the […] Read more »
Matthew Dowd: Historic polling pattern points to Trump
… “I think Donald Trump, as of today, is the Republican nominee for president,” Dowd said on ABC’s This Week on Sept. 6, 2015. “He leads nationally in every single poll for more than two months. He leads every single state, including favorite-son states like Florida, where he leads Jeb […] Read more »
An Authority On Public Opinion Polling, Borne From A Respect For People
It is hard to imagine a presidential election cycle at NPR without the warm presence and reassuring wisdom of Andy Kohut. … Because for decades, he was NPR’s on-air and in-house expert on the mind of America. And we called on him often — more than 500 times, in fact. […] Read more »
Andrew Kohut, Founding Director of Pew Research Center, Dies at 73
Andrew Kohut, a leading pollster who for three decades mined the public’s views on subjects like sex, race and religion but who, as an impartial professional, rarely revealed his own, died on Tuesday in Baltimore. … Among fellow public opinion professionals, social scientists, politicians and journalists, Mr. Kohut was widely […] Read more »
The Legacy of Andy Kohut
… It should come as no surprise to anyone sentient who follows American politics that polling itself is in crisis mode. Any fly-by-night hustler, or any ambitious consultant or institution, can hang up a shingle that says “Acme Polling,” release results, and have a good chance of having the results […] Read more »