A recent series of polls brings to mind a bobblehead doll, whose head wags from side to side and from front to back in a random fashion. That disconnected movement seems to be a visual representation of what the polls have been saying about the general public and its views...

Recently, New York Times columnist David Brooks has echoed the chorus of right wing noisemakers, who claim that the public is firmly opposed to the healthcare reform efforts of President Obama and the Democrats in Congress, and that if the Democrats persist in trying to pass such legislation, they...

In my earlier post (Part I) on this subject, I suggested it would be a political miracle...

Over the past several days, according to the New York Times and other news sources, millions of protesters in Iran have taken to the streets to express their opposition to the official results of last week's disputed presidential election.

Earlier this week, however, the Washington Post published

This post is part of Pollster.com's week-long series on Stan Greenberg's new book, Dispatches from the War Room.

I'm...

My colleague, Mark Blumenthal, has recently posted his reaction to an earlier post of mine, in which I suggested

Two recent polls, one by Gallup and the other by CNN, illustrate how easy it is for pollsters to manipulate public opinion into something different from what it really is.

The "convergence mystery" gets even more mysterious.

In Survey Practice, I initially...

The final presidential contest predictions of the major media polls all came pretty close to the actual results, predicting Obama to win by anywhere from 5 to 11 percentage points (he actually won by 6.7 points).

The 2008 exit polls suggest that most the major media pollsters missed an important part of the presidential campaign, as they either failed to measure or mostly ignored the large undecided group of voters just after the major party conventions...

On "All Things Considered" Sunday night, Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, reported the latest results of his organization's poll, showing Obama with...

Two days ago, Nick Panagakis reopened our debate about the "true" size of the undecided voters in his post on pollster.com, entitled Supersized Undecideds. Oddly, his post tends...

Three polls, all at the same time, give three wildly contradictory pictures of the American public. The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll says the public opposes taxpayer bailout of Wall Street by 55 percent to 31 percent, a result cited on CNN by David Gergen the night the poll was...