PHOENIX -- When the Department of Defense released its Don't Ask Don't Tell survey of service members and their spouses in December of last year, Sen....

Over the past several years, pollsters have been working to understand the best approach to conducting survey research in a world where no single tech...

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas today rocked the polling world by posting an analysis that he says shows "quite convincingly" that the national sur...

Patrick Murray is director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute The motto of Nate Silver's website, www.fiverthirtyeight.com, is "Politics Do...

And speaking of AAPOR's Transparency Initiative, the organization announced via email yesterday the names of 11 more survey organizations that recentl...

My new column reviews AAPOR's Transparency Initiative as described in detail this past weekend by outgoing AAPOR President Peter Miller. I hope you'l...

I'm back in DC and just filed a column that should appear on NationalJournal.com later this afternoon about the Transparency Initiative announced over...

One last AAPOR interview (from me) for tonight: On Saturday, I talked to University of Cincinnati Political Science Professor George Bishop, who pres...

This latest interview from the AAPOR Conference in Chicago features Columbia University Political Science Professor Robert Erikson discussing his pape...

This latest interview from the AAPOR Conference in Chicago features David Rothschild, a PhD candidate at the Wharton School of the University of Penns...

Today at the AAPOR Conference in Chicago, I interviewed Peter V. Miller, Northwestern University professor and the organization's outgoing president j...

Today at the AAPOR Conference in Chicago, I interviewed Jeff Jones, managing editor of the Gallup Poll, on his work using the generic House vote to pr...

At the AAPOR Conference yesterday, I interviewed Peter J. Woolley, director of Fairleigh Dickinson University's Public Mind Poll, on an experiment he ...

Yesterday, I interviewed Douglas Rivers, President and CEO of YouGov Polimetrix and professor of political science at Stanford University, on a paper ...

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...

This post is the first of a series of video interviews we'll be doing over the next few days at this year's conference of the American Association for...

Later this week, I'll be in Chicago for the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). One of the more newswo...

The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) alerted its membership this afternoon that it will "continue with long-standing plans" to...

My column today concludes with the argument that news media outlets, including Pollster.com, need to do a better job holding pollsters to the minimal ...

They're back. As reported yesterday by Politico, Strategic Vision, LLC posted results** from what they claim is a survey of Georgia. As per our previo...

The events of the week delayed my pointing to a terrific resource made available to pollsters and polling junkies over the weekend by Public Opinion Q...

On a morning full of big political news -- the apparent death of the health reform bill, a Supreme Court decision ending restrictions on corporate cam...

My last column for 2009 takes a look back at the strangest and most troubling polling story of the year: The allegations of fraud swirling around the ...

The crux of the reprimand issued last week by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) against Strategic Vision, LLC is that the p...

The Strategic Vision story is getting far more interesting. In the wake of a public reprimand from the American Association for Public Opinion Researc...