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May 13, 2008

Why No Summary Numbers on the West Virginia Chart?

Pollster reader Dave asks: Why have you stopped including summary numbers in your graphs? As most of you know, our charts usually include a regression trend line (a line drawn through the points) as well as a legendd at the...

April 24, 2008

Has Polling Killed Democracy?

Just to make the week more challenging (in light of Eric Dienstfrey's well deserved but not so well timed vacation this week), I agreed some months ago to speak tomorrow on a special panel, "Has Polling Killed Democracy", put on...

April 18, 2008

Why Weekend Updates May Be Slow

Back in September, Eric Dienstfrey, ever the model employee, asked politely if he might be able to take a week off in April for the Passover holiday and to attend to a family obligation. I said: "April? Please. That should...

March 17, 2008

Typekey Login And Our Comments Policy

As of today, in order to post a comment on Pollster.com, we are requiring that you log-in with a Typekey identity and that you set your Typekey preferences to share your email address with us. I posted on Saturday that...

March 15, 2008

Our Comment Bugs and Typekey Sign-in

We want to update regular readers on two important issues affecting our comments facility. First, we believe we have, at long last, identified and eliminated the technical glitch that caused long delays and error messages for those posting comments, frequently...

February 16, 2008

DC-AAPOR event on Wednesday

An announcement for those in the DC area. I will be participating in a discussion on "Politics and Polling" next Wednesday afternoon hosted by the DC Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (DC-AAPOR). Hope you can join...

February 15, 2008

Bialik on Poll Mash-Ups

Carl Bialik, author of "The Numbers Guy" column for the Wall Street Journal, takes a balanced look today at the pitfalls of something we do here at Pollster, "mashing up surveys from various sources this election year to produce composite...

January 30, 2008

February 5 Update

For those who may have missed it (I tucked a mini-announcement in last night's exit poll thread), we are now reporting poll results for twelve thirteen of the February 5 primary states, and will be adding another half dozen or...

January 10, 2008

Our New Partnership with National Journal Group

This news has been a bit delayed between the holidays and the early primaries, but we are very excited to announce a new strategic partnership between Pollster.com and the National Journal Group, the publishers of the National Journal, CongressDaily, The...

December 31, 2007

How to Plot Rolling Average Results?

With today's update, we confront the technical issue of how to incorporate rolling-average tracking surveys into our trend charts. What follows is a quick summary of what rolling-average tracking is and how we will incorporate the results of these surveys...

December 31, 2007

Three Estimates (Explained) for IA & NH

As of today, our Iowa and New Hampshire charts pages now include two new features: A summary of the current estimates for each candidate based on the trend lines on our charts (including the frequently requested "sensitive" estimator), and a...

October 23, 2007

Why Does a Weaker Result Move the Trend Up?

As many of you know, our partnership with the online journal Slate resumed last week, as they kicked off their new Election Scorecard feature, which is once again powered and provided by Pollster.com. For now, the Slate feature displays...

October 16, 2007

Charts: Swapping Gingrich for Paul

While it may have gone unnoticed by all but our most devoted readers, we made a small change earlier today to the charts that display results for Republican presidential candidates nationally and in each of the early primary states:...

September 04, 2007

Shameless Self-Promotion Alert

For those interested, I'll be interviewed for a brief segment on MSNBC this morning shortly after 10:15 eastern time. Sorry for the late notice....

August 31, 2007

Where is Ron Paul's Name?????

As this already slow Friday afternoon before Labor Day winds down, I seem to be on the receiving end of a glut of eerily similar emails about Ron Paul. Here is a sampling (and other than salutations, I'm leaving...

June 19, 2007

New: Charts and Table for Early Presidential Primary States

Today we launch pages on Pollster.com displaying charts and tables of public polling data (and links) for the Democratic and Republican contests in five early presidential primary states. For those who can't wait to dive right in, here are...

May 31, 2007

NYT: Online Polls and Traditional Pollsters

Let's start, once again, with the unavoidable conflict: Pollster.com is owned and sponsored by Polimetrix, a company that conducts online surveys. We are, however, walled off in a way that allows us the editorial freedom to write whatever we...

May 23, 2007

Apologies...

We experienced some server problems which prevented our updating the site today. We are now back in business and will have several updates shortly. Apologies for the interruption and thank you for your patience....

May 21, 2007

Pollster.com Wins AAPOR's Mitofsky Innovator Award

I have the pleasure of sharing some very good news: On Saturday night, Charles Franklin and I had the very high honor of being named winners of 2007 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovator's Award by the American Association for Public...

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