An epic data nerd battle started last Wednesday over Twitter as critics lambasted Public Policy Polling (PPP) for withholding a weekend poll of voters in Pueblo County, Colorado. … PPP is not a public agency, it’s not a non-profit, and it’s not under any obligation to anyone but its clients […] Read more »
Polling and Democracy: Report of the AAPOR task force on public opinion and leadership
Public opinion is the lifeblood of democracy, and so AAPOR, the American Association for Public Opinion Research, is more than a professional organization. AAPOR is a professional organization dedicated to giving people a voice in the decisions that affect their daily lives. A key part of our mission is to […] Read more »
There’s Something Wrong With America’s Premier Liberal Pollster
No pollster attracts more love and hate than Public Policy Polling. … Last fall, PPP was front and center in conservative complaints about allegedly skewed polls. But when the election results came in, PPP’s polls were vindicated and the conspiracy-minded critics were debunked. Pollsters, though, tend to judge one another […] Read more »
The Role of Public Polls
This NYC primary season brought both an anticipated “poll-iferation” and an equally expected questioning of the reliability of public polls. With the first round of 2013 citywide voting now over and primary day in our rear view mirror, let’s assess how the public polls fared. [cont.] Lee Miringoff, Marist Institute […] Read more »
A battered polling industry takes stock
A new survey highlights the two-front problem facing the polling industry: People don’t trust polls, and many say they are unlikely to want to participate in them. [cont.] Jennifer Agiesta, AP Read more »
Nate Silver vs. Public Policy Polling
Data modeling whiz Nate Silver and automated pollster Public Policy Polling lit up the Twitter-sphere this afternoon — or at least the polling/political nerd section of it. At issue was the prolific Democratic pollster’s decision, disclosed Wednesday, not to publish the results of a poll on the Colorado state Senate […] Read more »