The phrase
"opinion pollsters" refers to people or organizations that collect and analyze data to find out what people think or how they feel about a particular topic. They conduct surveys or polls to gather opinions from a sample of the population and use the results to make predictions or draw conclusions about public attitudes.
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«He's getting more numbers right now than two city - wide office holders and someone who just lost narrowly for mayor,» said Marist Institute for
Public Opinion pollster Lee Miringoff.
If opinion pollsters are still sore from their election - night embarrassment, they can be consoled by the thought that economists fared even worse.
Britain's most
respected opinion pollster has warned Labour its chances of winning a majority at the next election verge on the «improbable» and that blaming its defeat on a shift away from Blairism is «wholly inadequate».
The work of public
opinion pollsters requires grounding in basic social science research methods, such as how to ask good questions.
If Ipsos Mori want to become opinion formers
rather opinion pollsters, they'll need to be rather more persuasive than that.
The second of two Democratic mayoral primary debates is set for Wednesday, but leading
public opinion pollsters have yet to study the full Democratic primary field or take stock of the competition between Mayor Bill de Blasio and his lone debate opponent, challenger Sal Albanese.
Of course, what voters say to
opinion pollsters is one thing and what they do at the polling station is another, but it is interesting to note two things.
It wasn't long before people were telling
the opinion pollsters that the chirpy, pipe - smoking Harold Wilson was making the prime minister Harold Macmillan look like an Edwardian fuddy - duddy.
These are busy times for
opinion pollsters: elections are always the ultimate test of their ability to read the tea - leaves and - for good or ill - the pollsters love putting themselves to the test.
It's easy to blame
the opinion pollsters for this, but this was a failure of journalism as much as a failure of opinion polling.
Compare that with
the opinion pollsters and try to reconcile the discrepancy.
He said it was «comical» that the director of strategy in Number 10 was also
an opinion pollster (Andrew Cooper).
In
his Opinion Pollster column Stephan Shakespeare notes a 27 % swing in favour of EU membership in just eight weeks - simply because pro-EU voices have joined the argument.
And
opinion pollsters will have to re-examine their navels.
This «research» only reveals the public
opinion pollsters» low opinion of the public.