Dotty Lynch, who became a leading authority on the concerns and political attitudes of American women, first as one of the earliest female pollsters to advise presidential campaigns and later with CBS News as an analyst of polls and current-affairs trends, died Aug. 10 at a hospital in Washington. She […] Read more »
CBS News veteran Dotty Lynch dies
Washington’s media community reacted with an outpouring of sadness Monday at the death of Dotty Lynch, the longtime political analyst and pollster who spent 20 years as the political editor of CBS News. Lynch was an early leader among women in the polling industry at a time when survey research […] Read more »
Are Bad Pollsters Copying Good Pollsters?
The political polling industry is a mess. Fewer and fewer people are willing to respond to telephone surveys, particularly automated ones, and the costs of live interviews are climbing ever higher. Meanwhile, polls have gained prominence in the political media (FiveThirtyEight itself is a part of this trend), and the […] Read more »
Public Divided on Feds Requiring Reduction of Greenhouse Gases
An announcement this week from an environmental group claims that “about 80 percent of people in both red and blue districts believe that global warming is real and that we should be doing more to fight it.” Other recent polls by Quinnipiac, NBC/Wall Street Journal, and ABC/Washington Post also claim […] Read more »
Racial Voting Lines In Hawaii Senate Primary Leave Pollsters Mostly Clueless
I don’t know who is going to win Saturday’s special Democratic Senate primary between Sen. Brian Schatz and Rep. Colleen Hanabusa — and it’s not just because there’s a lot going on in Hawaii right now (an earthquake rattled Hawaii on Thursday, and two tropical storms are on course to […] Read more »
Yes, Alaska Is Hard to Poll. So Is Everywhere Else.
Alaska is notorious for being difficult to poll. It’s a common refrain, common enough that you could be forgiven for not stopping to wonder why. But it’s not entirely clear why the state should pose such difficulties. CONT. Josh Katz, New York Times Read more »