"Moral values" frequently scores high on exit
polls. A Los Angeles Times exit
poll found it to be the top concern of voters in 1996--but no one attributed President Bill Clinton's re-election that year to "values voters."
Dove says that more people want to monitor
polls in November.
Beware of
poll pretenders, such as "instant" TV
polls and online
polls in which people are asked to give opinions about a topic of the day.
So, presuming higher turnout, an arguably better predictor of election results would be
polls of registered voters--both those who voted and those who stayed home in 2000.
Eisinger examines the advent of interest in independently measuring public opinion apart from Congress with Hoover and FDR, Truman's rejection of
polls, and the congressional reaction to the Eisenhower administration's State Department polling operation.
It was a good day for other Pac-10 teams in the
poll. Washington State, which was idle this weekend, was the biggest beneficiary of a weekend when 11 of the Top 25 lost, moving from No.
One would have to have been completely asleep over recent weeks to have avoided hearing
poll results claiming that "seventy percent of the American people" believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9-11 terrorist attack.
For example, in a recent AOL
poll more than 80% of people felt their professional future was uncertain.
More often than not, the candidate whom pre-election
polls indicate will win does in fact win.
Republicans are not trying to win over African American voters, asserts Cornell Belcher, president of brilliant corners Research & Strategies, a Washington, D.C., research firm that conducts
polls for the Democratic National Committee.
Composed of two to four people, the panels included voters who had been denied their right to vote, NAACP activists who worked the get-out-the-vote effort, NAACP phone-stand volunteers who fielded complaints on election day,
poll workers, and news journalists.
But a count of
polls available in the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research database shows about 130 taken in the two months preceding the 2000 election.