Pollsters Raise Alarm: Inaccurate Polls May Be Impacting Campaigns

A remarkable bi-partisan group of campaign pollsters released an open letter this afternoon that assailed the "sometimes uncritical media coverage" of the "proliferation" of public pre-election polls that fail to disclose basic information about how they are conducted and that "have the capacity to shape media and donor reactions to election contests." Full Story »

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Roland F. Hirsch
1.8
by Roland F. Hirsch - Nov. 10, 2010

This news analysis has modest journalistic merit. The major defect is that the author did not list the polling organizations that did not sign. Most of the major polling organizations are not included: Gallup, Zogby, Marist, Rasmussen, Public Policy Polling, Quinnipiac, Harris, Ipsos, Pew. This lack of context undermines the value of the piece.

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