by David W. Moore on Jan 17, 2019
How Willing is the Public to Compromise on the Shutdown? Why 2 Polls Find Different Answers
This past week, both Pew Research and ABC News/Washington Post released polls that aim to measure the public’s view of...
Media Polls
by David W. Moore on Jan 15, 2019
11th Annual Dubious Polling Awards
Editor’s note: Every January, iMediaEthics’ polling director David W. Moore assembles the top ten “Dubious Polling" Awards for iMediaEthics. The...
by David W. Moore on Dec 19, 2018
Five Takeaways from the Washington Post Fact Checker Poll
Last Friday, the Washington Post published the results of a poll designed explicitly to see how many people believe false...
by David W. Moore on Nov 19, 2018
The Generic Ballot and Gerrymandering: Surprising Results in the Midterms
For many people, the large number of House seats won by the Democrats in the midterm elections is surprising. As...
by David W. Moore on Oct 22, 2018
The Conflicting, Yet Useful, Polls on Healthcare and the Midterm Elections
Healthcare has emerged as the most important issue in the 2018 midterm elections, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)...
by David W. Moore on Oct 01, 2018
Gallup Says “Republican Party Favorability Highest in Seven Years” – Really?
It may seem surprising that a Gallup poll last week (before the Brett Kavanaugh/Dr. Christine Blasey Ford hearings) reported the...
by David W. Moore on Aug 22, 2018
The Public’s ‘Galling’ Views of the Media: Troubling, but overstated.
In a recent Washington Post article, Colbert King wrote that “the views of rank-and-file Republicans, captured in voter surveys, are...
by David W. Moore on Jul 17, 2018
What the Generic Ballot Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us About the 2018 Midterm Elections
It seems that all political eyes these days are focused on the generic ballot, which should provide the inquiring –...
by David W. Moore on Jun 27, 2018
That AP/NORC Poll: Do Americans really mean “no” to a Trump self-pardon? Maybe, maybe not.
An AP/NORC poll, conducted June 13-18, and reported last week, presents pretty convincing numbers that Americans in principle believe that...