Late last week, Politico reported that the FCC is considering allowing phone companies to offer a service that blocks phone calls made by an automatic dialer. While they are primarily targeting telemarketing phone calls, this regulation would be catastrophic to the political polling industry and would change the modern political campaign. While Public Opinion Strategies […]
read moreAs the 2015 NCAA Tournament begins, I thought it would be interesting to examine exactly who is taking the time to fill out tournament brackets. While studies show that March Madness costs businesses between one and two billion dollars in lost productivity nationwide each year, data from a HBO Real Sports/Marist Poll shows that just […]
read moreWith new data illustrating the increased amount of cell phone usage that I discussed last month, it is important to look at how voters use their smartphones to access campaign information. (Fully 90{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} of American adults have a cell phone, and nearly two-thirds – 64{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} – of all American adults with a cell phone have […]
read moreIn December, the CDC released its most recent report on cell phone usage in the US. The report showed that 44{09f965da52dc6ab4c1643a77bd40d1f729d807040cd8db540234bb981a782222} of American households are currently cell phone-only, meaning that there is not a landline phone in the household. This is a three-point increase over just six months ago, when cell phone-only households made up […]
read moreLast month, I reviewed Pew’s report entitled Political Polarization in the American Public and showed how it tracked with the growing polarization in Congress (https://pos.org/2014/06/polarization-showing-no-signs-of-narrowing/). Over the last decade, the number of consistent conservative and liberal Americans has nearly doubled – this blog post looks at how these Americans are isolating themselves in areas where […]
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