Sentences with phrase «pollsters report»

We are not surprised when these pollsters report different results on the same day.

Not exact matches

Pollsters regularly report that evangelicals represent 20 percent of the nation's population.

This contradiction led us to wonder if Americans were reporting the same level of attendance to pollsters while their actual church participation was dropping.

We found evidence that «herding» — whereby pollsters make design and reporting decisions that caused their polls to vary less than expected given their sample sizes — played a part in forming the statistical consensus.

Steven Greenberg, a pollster with the Siena Research Institute, credits the recent Republican bump in the polls to the fact that voters have only recently begun to pay attention to the races, just as allegations, including a damning Inspector General's report, have emerged putting the focus on Democratic corruption in Albany.

Consistency of the pre-election day polls suggests that the pollsters were reporting what they were told by the electorate.

According to the report, Bolivian President Evo Morales has a 58 percent approval rating among the electorate according to survey results by pollster Ipsos.

He echoes the view of Mr Duncan Smith who, in his email to me, points out that people in the most deprived neighbourhoods are more reluctant to report violence to pollsters or police.

Because of the result in 2015, changes to the pollsters» models can only have led to them reporting higher Tory numbers, even if the underlying reality is unchanged.

Discussing the report on the Today programme, Ipsos MORI chief executive Ben Page made it clear that political polling didn't bring in much cash compared to the work done for corporate clients - and he even went as far as suggesting that pollsters might just call it a day with election surveys.

The latest report by the spy agency thus, corroborates results of three independent polls conducted by pollsters hired by the opposition NPP and the office of Nana Akufo - Addo.

The report also outlines four reasons that have been frequently cited pollsters and «those on the doorstep» for the 2015 election defeat.

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.

However, it was reported that pollsters had in fact picked up a late swing to Labour immediately prior to polling day, not the Conservatives.

[165] It was reported after the election that private pollsters working for the two largest parties actually gathered more accurate results, with Labour's pollster James Morris claiming that the issue was largely to do with surveying technique.

Adam Fleming reports on what the party, public and pollsters reckon about the Eurosceptics» chances at these polls and next year's general election.

Rasmussen Reports told you all along that it was a much closer race than most other pollsters predicted.

No Bowling Green massacre ever occurred, a fact that many mainstream news outlets reported, but a majority of Trump voters still told pollsters that the non-existent massacre is why the US needs Mr Trump's immigration executive order.

Well, many of us silly pollsters thought the Tories would end ahead of Labour too: questions on leadership and the economy favoured them, we expected the polls to move towards the Tories... but the data just kept on showing the parties neck - and - neck, and ultimately a pollster's job is to measure the answers the public give us, not report what we think they should say.

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.

Siena pollsters like to track trends, which can be instructive, so the day before the primary, they reported her lead stretching to 39 points.

Initially the adjustment tended to boost the reported level of Conservative support in polls and was one of the reasons why ICM was the most accurate pollster in 1997.

But then news surfaced that education reform group PennCAN had hired a leading GOP pollster and commissioned a secret report urging the governor to use the Philadelphia school crisis as a wedge issue to rally his base.

Pollsters Steve Farkas and Ann Duffett reported in 2010 that 86 percent of teacher preparation professors say it should be «easier to terminate unmotivated or incompetent teachers — even if they are tenured.»

Pollsters Farkas and Duffett, for instance, have reported that struggling students possess an unrivaled claim on teachers» attention.

Outlined in a new report called «The Essential Profession,» the research was led by pollster Louis Harris, who chairs Recruiting New Teachers, and was paid for by the...

I've seen a lot of surveys over the past thirty - five years and I've conducted many public opinion surveys but I've never seen a pollster or client change the wording — after the fact — in order to report that survey reveals some piece of information when, in fact, it does not.

For instance, pollsters Steve Farkas and Anne Duffett have reported that teachers believe their students are all entitled to equal attention but that, when asked who is most likely to get one - on - one attention, 80 percent said academically struggling students and just 5 percent said academically advanced students.

In 2001, US pollster, communications guru and political strategist Frank Luntz wrote a report which would shape the Republican message on climate change.

10/2/15 — A majority of Republicans, including 54 % of self - described conservatives, believe that the world's climate is changing and that humans are playing some role, according to a new survey conducted by three Republican pollsters and reported in the New York Times.

Rasmussen Reports — a pollster that tends to lean right — reported in April that only 40 percent of Americans believe human activities are responsible for global warming.

Mark Penn, the spin king / pollster who worked with Bill Clinton during Monica-Gate and advised Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, is now taking on Microsoft where he will head up «special projects» and focus on the consumer sector, reporting to CEO Steve Ballmer.

But as the Pew Research Center and other respected pollsters are reporting, the nation's 75.4 million millennials — larger in numbers now than either Gen X or the baby boomers — aren't lazy or entitled at all.