Gary Langer

Obama's approvals began high like Bush's but have now cratered dangerously close to Lyndon Johnson's when he abandoned a reelection bid....

What is the most important lesson to be learned from the emerging Daily Kos - Research 2000 polling scandal? Two prominent pollsters, Gallup Poll Edit...

[Update: On Friday night, I linked to my column for this week, which appeared earlier than usual. It covers the controversy over Nate Silver's pollste...

If you think pollsters in the US have it rough - difficulty getting folks to agree to participate, difficulty finding good samples given the rise of c...

Both sides of the epic health care reform battle continued to invoke the view of "the people" over the last few days. A few hours after the bill passe...

Regular readers will recall that after ABC News polling director Gary Langer posted a new paper on a study conducted by a team of Stanford University ...

Gary Langer has a blog post up today worth reading in full, but I'll block quote two paragraphs to get you to read the rest. First, his lead: A deb...

Douglas Rivers is president and CEO of YouGov/Polimetrix and a professor of political science and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Instit...

Over the last few weeks, I had the chance to attend two different events that covered similar ground: a day-long conference on survey quality organize...

"Told ya so." That's how ABC News polling director Gary Langer begins a blog post explaining that polls from ABC News predicted today's report of a 2....

Somewhere during the conventions, I got out of the habit of posting these. So for those new to the site, here is a collection of links to "outliers" -...

Just yesterday, I expressed a bit of frustration that much of the recent media focus on the "Bradley-Wilder Effect." Much of it, and much of the debat...

[Brought to you on Monday morning due to a Sunday evening power outage...] Gary Langer and the ABC Polling Unit chart Obama's ascent in delegates and ...

Today's Guest Pollster article comes from David W. Moore, a senior fellow with the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. He is a former...

Brian Schaffner unpacks the Michigan exit poll results that asked which candidate the respondent would have voted for if all the candidates had been o...

Gary Langer reviews the two new California polls on same-sex marriage and offers reasons why they produce divergent results. Kathy Frankovic thinks th...

Today's Guest Pollster article comes from David W. Moore, a senior fellow with the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. He is a former...

As a wrap-up to my coverage of this year's annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), here are links to all of...

Last week, Democratic pollster Mark Mellman used his column in The Hill to argue that one could use "same-poll to same-poll comparisons" to argue that...

Amidst the personal craziness last week, I neglected to link to two columns from network pollsters that provide some valuable data from the exit polls...

As of this writing, the Pennsylvania Secretary of State reports that Hillary Clinton defeated Barack Obama yesterday by a 9.2% margin (54.6% to 45.4%)...

I will be live-blogging here starting very soon on what the exit polls will have to tell us about the exit polls. More details to follow, but please f...

We have been busy here over the last day or two, including links to 8 new polls that interviewed through Sunday night, so I am going to try use this p...

On the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, here is one last update on the results by race, education and gender and measured by the Quinnipiac University...

Gary Langer averages airworthy national polls and considers coverage problems in a "global" poll. Kathy Frankovic pays homage to Phil Meyer's contribu...