Public Opinion Strategies

I served on an Ad Hoc Committee of the American Association for Public Opinion Research that was formed in response to the controversy over the public polls in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.  The Committee’s report was released today.  Michael Traugott of the University of Michigan chaired the committee, and did yeoman’s work keeping the [...] Read more

Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report detailing estimates of wireless-only households and adults by state.  For researchers this information is a valuable resource because it is the only known estimate by state of wireless-only households.   I was surprised to learn that one in four adults (25.1%) in Oklahoma are in [...] Read more

(This article was originally published by Politico.com on November 19, 2007)
As recent reports about “push polling” on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s religious affiliation make their way through the newspapers and the blogosphere, I thought it might be helpful to provide a brief pollster’s guide to what constitutes a push poll and what doesn’t.
Push polls [...] Read more

Click here to view the results of the latest NBC-Wall Street Journal survey conducted by Public Opinion Strategies from February 26-March 1, 2009 of 1,007 adults. Read more