The first outbreaks occurred months ago and now the cases of Polling Derangement Syndrome are hopscotching through the media and infecting much of the populace. The affliction enables sufferers to find anything and everything they want in the latest political opinion surveys. It only promises to spread in the 3 […] Read more »
Do Presidential Polls Break Toward Challengers?
There are certainly some good reasons to think that the polls could break toward Mitt Romney. For instance, many polls out now were conducted among registered voters; when pollsters switch over to likely voter polls instead — which assess each voter’s probability of actually casting a ballot on Nov. 6 […] Read more »
Does Romney Have an Edge From Likely Voter Polls?
… Are likely voter polls actually more accurate than registered voter ones? To study this, I looked for as many instances as I could in our polling database for when pollsters included both registered voter and likely voter numbers in the same survey release. [cont.] Nate Silver, New York Times Read more »
Facebook, CNN Partner to Make ‘America’s Choice 2012’ Political Coverage an Interactive, Social Experience
… Facebook and CNN are teaming up to take the pulse of the American electorate and amplify the voices of the social site’s users as they share their thoughts and feelings on candidates and critical issues facing the country ahead of Election Day. … “By allowing citizens to connect in […] Read more »
Was climate-change poll biased?
Was a Washington Post poll published last week that asked Americans how they felt about major environmental problems biased in a global-warming direction? A sharp-eyed reader raised that question after pointing out that Jon Krosnick, the Stanford University professor who has helped The Post conduct its polling on environmental issues, […] Read more »
Behind the scenes at Gallup: A look inside the machinery of public opinion surveys
… With the media’s dependence on poll numbers – and the sheer frequency with which those numbers are collected – news consumers must educate themselves about which surveys provide valuable data and why. [cont.] Jennifer Skalka Tulumello, Christian Science Monitor Read more »