Sentences with phrase «how pollsters»

I'm curious as to what questions were asked, and how the pollsters defined «climate scientist».

Where does accountability (for hare - brained ideas about how pollsters were «skewing» their polls to give Obama an advantage) fit into your taxonomy of ethics?

They'll talk about why the polls were wrong in New Hampshire and how pollsters make conclusions about how voters plan to cast their ballots.

How pollsters deal with don't knows.

When you listen, you'll hear how pollsters in the most recent presidential election didn't get it wrong.

It also matters how a pollster phrases and orders questions, and whether it's a phone interview, in - person interview, or online survey.

Not exact matches

Then, pollsters have to decide how to analyze and weight the data, and those methodologies can vary.

Business Insider spoke with party officials and pollsters in the most crucial counties within those states to see how the improbable Trump victory took place.

«If this is true, it will be a real challenge for the polling industry to figure out how do we account for what seems to be an anti-establishment segment of the population who won't talk to pollsters,» he continued.

Wang said a number of steps must be taken to attempt correction of the miss, including reviewing if pollsters adequately captured hard - to - poll demographics — such as blue - collar white voters — and as beginning to understand how to capture the leanings of undecided voters.

He had told Business Insider in March that he'd «only been wrong like this twice in my life» when discussing how Michigan pollsters, including himself, missed Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont's shocking victory in the state's Democratic primary.

Pollsters said the results showed how Trump was dragging down the Republican Party, but the president took none of the blame.

Somehow, I don't think Trump's pollsters have any more knowledge on how to do proper polling, so that eliminates incompetence on the news media part and only leaves intentional misleading or willful ignorance as the only other plausible explanations.

How has this primary session challenged and confirmed the expectations of pollsters, political analysts, and the media?

Bettws may be too clunky a name to be adopted by pollsters, but with the spectre of the next election looming, its message is clear: People are struggling to see how the democratic framework works for them.

Pollsters are beginning their Westminster rehabilitation process, explaining what went wrong (and how things can not happen again).

Due to changes in how we use technology, pollsters are less able to gather reliable data.

Most telephone pollsters ask how certain people would be likely to vote in a general election on a scale from one to 10, where one is certain not to vote and 10 is absolutely certain to vote.

[1] Pollsters used to call people at home to ask them how they'd vote.

It doesn't help that your state of mind will depend on which poll you are reading and your memories of the pollsters» failure in 2015 so how can you make sense of what is going on.

Pollster behind «1 in 5 Muslims have sympathy with ISIS» claim condemns how the Sun presented survey 24 November 2015

In addition the BPC has called for greater transparency from pollsters, including logging in advance when each conducts a survey, stating clearly how the weighting has changed from poll to poll, releasing «micro data» for scrutiny and providing much more accurate gauges of the margin of error.

14.25 - So how did the pollsters get it so wrong?

Pollsters hear that voters prefer anyone but Brown, but how would they react to the unpleasant sight of a party tearing itself to shreds after 12 years in power?

How did the pollsters blunder so badly by predicting a photo - finish and hung parliament?

Adding to the inexorability is a factor pollsters refer to as «salience,» a measure of how much an issue means to you.

In the latest edition of the Ashcroft In America podcast I interview Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe; pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson tells us what the numbers say about the election result; historian Jon Darman considers whether we could be in for a Hillary landslide; and Hispanic voters in Miami and military families in Tampa tell us how they see the presidential and Senate races in the ultimate swing state.

But not everyone at the sumptuous soiree was so sure Hillary would get off: Bill Clinton's top pollster and current Fox News contributor Doug Schoen deliberately steered clear of Abedin and Weiner, while former US Attorney General Michael Mukasey was overheard saying that given how «obvious» Hillary's e-mail blunders were, he didn't see how they could not charge her.

On the other hand, no voters perhaps don't like publicly saying how they will vote — in keeping with when people didn't tell pollsters they would vote for John Major in 1992.

Stan Greenberg, the man who served as the lead pollster for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign (and Al Gore's 2000 campaign) has written a long essay titled «How She Lost» that slams Clinton (and her campaign) for a series of messaging, tactical and broader strategic errors.

Harvey is the first Liberal Democrat MP to openly admit Miliband is on course to win the election, but his thoughts match that of many pollsters, who can not see how the Tories can build on their weak position to increase their share of the vote.

And, how do pollsters get at the «grey area» of public opinion?

After the general election there were plenty of people saying how they knew the Tories would win, their instincts told them they would, how could those silly pollsters not spot it?

The rise in the «other» support, the proximity of the local elections and the contrasting Liberal Democrat findings from different pollsters make it difficult to draw any firm conclusions about how party support is fluctating beyond noting that the last week has, unsurprisingly, seemed to give Labour's support a reasonable knock in the week leading up to the local elections.

Somewhere around a fifth of people normally tell pollsters they don't know how they would vote in an election tomorrow.

I'm not about to tell private - sector pollsters how to run their shops, but election - eve polls that could swing elections might be reconsidered.

As Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, details in her book, Talking to a Brick Wall, Brown marginalised her when she told him how unpopular he was.)

I don't put much faith in opinion polls, pollsters always claim to have solved past apparent flaws, but they haven't said exactly how they now how reluctant a particular parties supporters may be to support that party, how exactly they quantify it, indeed a lot of the assumptions opinion polls make seem to be based on opinion themselves.

In a Daily Politics film, Ellie Price took to a slide to look at how much weight should be given to the polls and how robust are the techniques used by pollsters.

The confusion reflects how quickly the plan was rammed through the Legislature, said pollster Mickey Carroll.

«Seven Eight out of eight pollsters predict Tory majority Main How do you solve a problem like the Liberal Democrats?»

«A new year and the same old, same old when it comes to how voters feel about the Governor,» Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said.

Despite pollsters» failure to predict the UK's 2015 general election result, what you are told people think about Brexit will influence whether you vote — and how

Santa Fe Institute Professor Mirta Galesic says pollsters might also ask: how do your friends plan to vote?

«People told us how anxious, isolated and bored they felt when they are forced off line,» a pollster told the news service.

Pollsters have made a science of how to target representative subsets of a larger whole.

But frankly, I'm more concerned about the taxpayers» and the pollsters» lack of interest in the unfairness of how the nation's only universal service is funded.

But if the pollster gets specific and asks just how much those lucky few should cough up, a big majority choose rates lower than the current ones.

How do the pollsters select and prepare their sample?

Speaking of situational logic, any time you're ready to explain how your «logic» led you to conclude that the pollsters where «skewing» their samples to rig their analysis to help Obama out by making it look like he was doing better than he was, please do feel free to do so.