Sentences with phrase «pollsters use»

Pollsters use different lower thresholds for excluding people altogether, and some exclude people altogether if they say they're anything except absolutely certain to vote.

For instance, every pollster uses slightly different wording for the main voting intention question, but they generally relate expectation to a hypothetical election to be held tomorrow or in the near future.

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

In fact this leads to some systemic biases, the main pollsters using quasi-random polling, ICM and Populus, both find too many Labour voters in their raw samples and have to use weighting to correct it.

Not exact matches

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.

According to national pollster Gallup, 64 % of respondents in its Oct. 2017 survey favored the idea of legalizing marijuana in the United States, which compares to just 25 % who felt the same way in 1995, the year before California became the first state to legalize medical cannabis for compassionate - use patients.

Pollsters beware, though: online data now give staff new tools to evaluate the themes, issues, framing and wording they use to define their candidate....

Nagourney does try to reach an Edwards pollster who was against the idea of using the haircut video at the YouTube debate, but the guy didn't return his call — and apparently there was no one else in the entire world available to offer some perspective and perhaps a critique of the campaign's strategy.

Yet, in today's day and age few people use landline phones and few people respond to anonymous phone calls from pollsters on their mobile phones.

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

The telephone pollsters (including my own organisation ComRes, plus ICM, Populus and MORI) use what's called Random Digit Dialling.

The figure below shows the average vote intention separately for men and women on average using data from a range of different pollsters (see methodological note below).

The main changes in method this week are: instead of using the most recent single poll from each pollster to calculate probabilities, we use the most recent two polls within the last two weeks.

«A majority of voters also say they would vote in favor of requiring legislators to disclose all outside income, for a property tax cap, to allow the use of medical marijuana, to allow wine to be sold in grocery stores, and to legalize same sex marriages,» Said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.

Using different methods, pollsters are divided about the extent of the Conservative lead, but they all show the gap with Labour shrinking, making the landslide Mrs. May hoped for unlikely and even, for at least one polling company, raising the possibility of a hung Parliament.

The PAC is using a pollster and political consultant, Doug Schoen and Bradley Tusk, connected to former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, once the Senate Republicans» biggest individual donor and a charter school champion when he was in office.

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.

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.

Peter Kellner from pollsters YouGov said voters used to perceive Labour as «nice but dim» while Tories were seen as «smart but mean».

That means calling in all possible financial favors, then using that money to hire consultants, pollsters, strategists, communications folks, and those who can seek endorsements from existing politicians.

Many pollsters are debating whether an online poll (used by Ednext) has now become superior to a telephone poll (used by PDK) on the grounds that people don't answer their phone anymore.

The term «voucher» is problematic enough that Republican pollster Frank Luntz has advised choice advocates to instead use the term «opportunity scholarship.»

LCV is obviously pro-environment, but historically nonpartisan, and they used both a Democratic and a Republican pollster.

For example, pollsters have long used segmentation to target particular groups of voters, such as through categorising audiences by gender, age, income, education and family size.