Media Polls, Media Polling, and Polling Standards

Polling American Minds: Is the economy really your priority?

Well, the economy must be the priority because that’s what all the pollsters are certainly telling us these days—repeated by...

Is the accuracy of media polling averages “uncanny,” as Nate Silver of Five Thirty Eight recently claimed on his New...

Pollsters have been asking a rather fuzzy question about trusting the "government in Washington," according to a number of reports...

The major media polls, once again, are performing a public disservice by their claims that most Americans “support” full body...

It looks like marriage is on the way out if we’re to believe the latest joint media poll on this...

Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, the authors of the standby journalism textbook The Elements of Journalism, have published a new...

The polling consensus these days is that most Americans support extending the Bush-era tax cuts just for the middle class and...

George Bishop, one of iMediaEthics' two columnists penning the Poll Skeptics Column, is on leave from iMediaEthics. Bishop is also on...

According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, six of ten Americans now say the war in Afghanistan has not...