Here are some polling questions you’re not likely to be asked the next time the kitchen phone rings: Do you trust political polls or think they’re skewed for partisan gain? And how much time during this final stretch of the election do you plan to spend digging through the minutiae […] Read more »
Romney or Obama? Political scientists make their predictions
Are you ready to call the election? Mitt Romney certainly isn’t, nor for that matter is President Obama. But a few hardy academics have done so. Out now are a baker’s dozen forecasts produced by political scientists that predict the outcome in November. Polls give Obama the advantage, nationally and […] Read more »
YWCA Poll: Romney Faces a Formidable Gender Gap
What do women want? Another four years of President Obama, according to a new YWCA-sponsored poll that found him leading Republican Mitt Romney by 49 percent to 31 percent. The yawning gender gap mirrors other surveys nationwide and here in Ohio, a hotly contested swing state, and it represents one […] Read more »
Rand poll tries something different, gets same results: Obama leading
… The Rand Corp. is trying something quite different this year. And part of what’s interesting is that the results are pretty much the same as everybody else’s. Rand’s 2012 Presidential Election Poll involves a single panel of voters who are asked the same three questions over and over. Since […] Read more »
Are the polls skewed?
NBC’s Domenico Montanaro addresses the criticism of some who believe public polling is skewed to favor Democrats with President Obama leading. NBC News Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Read more »
Recapping the polls: North Carolina, Nevada, and New Hampshire
Lee Miringoff talks with Chuck Todd of NBC News about the latest Marist polls in North Carolina, Nevada, and New Hampshire. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Read more »