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Four of the nation’s most accurate 2024 election pollsters have formed an independent group to produce “the very best” data ...
National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher probably got more than she bargained for when she asked for examples of bias by her outlet. A $9.4 billion rescissions package passed the House last month ...
On Tuesday, James Taranto claimed to have uncovered "a lovely example of liberal media bias" on the part of CBS News. He writes:A CBS poll finds that 60% of Americans say it's likely "that the ...
On Wednesday, Pew Research issued a study suggesting that the failure to include cellphones in a survey sample — and most pollsters don’t include them — m… ...
REPUBLICANS AND BIAS IN MIDTERM POLLS. Republicans always believe the polls are slanted against them. That belief has sometimes caused them to misread big political races. In 2012, for example, a ...
In the crowdsourced sample, Trump’s job approval drops by four percentage points when bogus cases are removed (35% to 31%). 23 Similarly, Vladimir Putin’s favorability rating drops by three percentage ...
President Trump continues to fire shots at the press, claiming biased coverage, misrepresented facts, and sometimes entirely made-up stories. In what can only be described as a war on traditional ...
One of the keys to successful social science is to ask unbiased survey questions*. The lack of a control group is just sloppiness. Gallup should know better.---*For your edification, here are examples ...
It has become a familiar pattern this election cycle: A poll shows President Obama several points ahead of Mitt Romney, conservatives look at the poll’s sample and discover that a significantly ...
The polls have no such history of partisan bias, at least not on a consistent basis. There have been years, like 1980 and 1994, when the polls did underestimate the standing of Republicans.