Party Identification

Only two years after the proportion of U.S. adults who identified themselves as Democrats matched its highest level in 22 years, a new annual survey h...

Is the latest Newsweek poll "fishy?" As we reported yesterday, their latest sample of registered voters split evenly on the question of whether they ...

We have been kicking around various "what if" scenarios on a potential three-way Senate race in Florida this afternoon. It's an incomplete and highly ...

Nate Silver has an interesting catch this morning: On the most recent USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted roughly a week after health care reform passed ...

The analysis of Tea Party Movement released last week by the Republican polling firm the Winston Group and a USA Today/Gallup poll on the same subject...

A Gallup poll released Monday showed that there are still more blue states than red, but the findings also confirm that Democrats have lost some of th...

This certainly seems like a banner week for blogging about pollster Scott Rasmussen, as I count at least three entry-worthy topics on the automated po...

Few things are more perennial in the survey world than partisan attacks on high profile polls that produce a result that partisans don't like. More of...

David Brooks' column in yesterday's New York Times has provoked considerable debate on both the Left and Right. It makes a number of assertions about ...

Gallup reviews long term trends in their party identification data by gender and age (plus video). Jim Gimpel ponders the durability of party ID. Neil...

Here is another follow-up on Monday's back-and-forth between Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg on behalf of the organization known as Democracy Corps...

A quick follow-up on yesterday's back-and-forth between Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg on behalf of the organization known as Democracy Corps and ...

Well, that didn't take long. Last week, we told you about a new Republican polling alliance, Resurgent Republic, modeled explicitly on the Democratic ...

This week, many columnists and bloggers took note of the apparent drop in Republican party identification on many of the recent national surveys, espe...

On a Friday morning conference call with reporters, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis boasted that, in partnership with the RNC, he expects to have o...

We missed doing a "poll update" on the GWU Battleground Poll today, partly because we did not receive the usual PDF via email with the daily results. ...

My NationalJournal.com column for the week on the continuing debate over party identification, how pollsters measure it and what they should do when t...