1.22 pm: Anthony Wells at UK Polling Report says that YouGov predicted the results of the European elections more accurately than
any of the other pollsters.
Not exact matches
The Players: Plenty
of cabinet ministers and
other MPs (the restaurant straddles all political lines), along with hard - charging lobbyists on expense accounts, diplomatic agents and
pollsters.
The EU's
pollsters have discovered a «striking» decline in acceptance
of GM foods over recent years even though Europeans are expressing support for
other uses
of biotechnology.
Protestantism in 1934 included the overwhelming majority
of Americans, and today 49 percent
of people surveyed tell
pollsters they «prefer» various forms
of Protestantism — or 58 percent will do so if one includes black Protestantism, though we shall see that formally it differs from
other Protestant bodies.
A press notice out by Channel 4 about the show stated: «From political strategists and
pollsters to disrupters and provocateurs — the decisions taken and platforms set out during those eight weeks in the summer
of 2016 have had reverberations throughout British politics and across the globe like no
other event since the fall
of the Berlin Wall.
The British history
of polling misses does seem exceptional however when compared to the track record
of pollsters in some
other countries.
All the major
pollsters quote figures that give more weight to this group than to
others - with the results that we're actually only looking at a proportion
of the electorate.
Sixty - eight percent said his cuts to school aid and tax cuts would convince them to oppose him, while 67 percent said the Committee to Save New York would keep them from pulling the lever for Cuomo, after the
pollsters» described the group as a «shadowy» organization «that raised more than $ 17 million from Wall Street, real estate moguls and
other business interests to promote his agenda
of education cuts and tax breaks.»
No group
of academics,
pollsters or campaign teams in the political parties before the election saw any outcome
other than a hung parliament.
But true too are two
other facts: Astorino has a huge gap to close, and it's hard to beat a popular incumbent when you face a two - to - one party disadvantage and you are unknown to two - thirds
of voters, including 70 percent
of your own party,» said Siena College
pollster Steven Greenberg.
Seems a bit odd for a
pollster to be commenting on the purpose
of the
other camp's polling.
But after the passing
of an immediate budget bounce, which briefly registered in surveys by
other pollsters, the Conservative party may start to worry about a vote - free recovery.
Clinton has also enlisted Obama
pollster Joel Benenson and
others who were not part
of her circle last time.
The
other part is that the poll is from Siena, and Siena tends to be one
of the most pro-Democrat
pollsters, so that swing may not be as wide as it's being portrayed.
Other bold - faced names at the dinner parties — hosted by the likes
of billionaire Cathy Lasry, real estate developer Henry Lambert and federal prosecutor Leslie Cornfeld — include Meredith Bennett, co-executive producer
of «The Colbert Report»; television personality (and Rudy Giuliani's ex-wife) Donna Hanover; Democratic
pollster Celinda Lake; former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton; Founder
of the Natural Resources Defense Council John Adams; and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
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.
As I've said before, all reputable
pollsters will put voting intention questions at the start
of a poll to make sure
other questions don't skew the answers.
November 7, 2012 • Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic
pollster Celinda Lake and Republican
pollster Kellyanne Conway about the election results and the role
of female voters and
other demographics.
The
pollsters did not provide cost -
of - living data, however, or regional differences reflecting high housing expenses in urban and coastal California — a reason many teachers move to
other states or quit the profession.
Pollsters discovered this by asking one randomly chosen half
of the respondents the same question as was posed to the
other half, except that they dropped any specific mention
of the Common Core.
I heard two
pollsters talk the
other day and in their surveys
of the American public on climate change they found that 60 + %
of Republicans agreed climate change was a threat to future generations and 80 + %
of Democrats agreed.
The Swindle has been made a scapegoat by
pollsters Ipsos Mori, Bob Ward and his former boss Bob May, George Monbiot and many
others desperate to explain the failure
of Environmentalism to capture public hearts and minds.
A recent article in the Vancouver Sun, about an Angus Reid survey regarding «Canadians» openness to the religions
of others» based on «the results
of a major survey
of more than 2,000 residents by Vancouver - based
pollsters Angus Reid» highlights the importance
of context and clarity in stating conclusions based on statistics.
Other records show the firm once pitched an app to Breitbart News, the far - right website funded by hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer — Cambridge Analytica's principal investor — and are currently contracted by WPA Intelligence, a US - based consultancy founded by Republican
pollster Chris Wilson, who was director
of digital strategy for Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign.