Understanding Polling
Scott Keeter talked about how polls are designed and written, conducted, and analyzed, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. He also discussed the technological …
2,837 viewsScott Keeter talked about how polls are designed and written, conducted, and analyzed, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. He also discussed the technological …
2,837 viewsScott Keeter talked about how polling works, and described how polls are crafted, surveyed, and analyzed. Topics include polling samples, weighting, margin of error, and tabling of statistic…
591 viewsScott Keeter talked about 2010 midterm election voting patterns, including which groups showed up to vote and those that stayed home on election day. He also responded to telephone calls and…
194 viewsPanelists spoke about values held by the “Millennial” generation of Americans born after 1982. They focused on changing attitudes toward public policy, the role of government, individual cho…
398 viewsScott Keeter talked about issues in the Obama-McCain contest important to independents, including their demographic make-up and recent polls and surveys on their preferences. He responded to…
52 viewsThe session began with the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of the national anthem led by Girl Scout Troop 5462. U.S. Department of Education officials offered opening remarks on the top…
170 viewsScott Keeter talked about Pew’s new survey on public knowledge of current affairs. The survey, What Americans Know: 1989-2007, also looked at how the sources of news influence a person’s kno…
106 viewsParticipants talked about the impact of the youth vote in the 2004 elections, media analysis of voter turnout, voter education and motivation drives, and the successes of their efforts in th…
141 viewsParticipants talked about same-sex marriages, efforts by some to pass a Federal Marriage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the role of the issue in the 2004 presidential campaign, state au…
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