2018 Midterm Elections: Spot-On Polling
It wasn’t quite a tsunami, but it was definitely a wave – especially in the US House. Statewide offices in several states we polled a week before the election, however, were a different story. (TL;DR We told you so! 😉) Links to full poll results: Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee Turnout in Florida, Georgia, […]
Read MoreCygnal Poll: Braun Holds Lead in US Senate Race
MONTGOMERY, Ala. –With just seven days until election day, a poll by Cygnal, a national polling and research firm, shows Republican Mike Braun with a 3-point advantage over incumbent Senator Joe Donnelly in Indiana’s US Senate race. “Despite Braun’s lower overall favorability, he stands to benefit from Republican voters hoping to send Democrats a message that they […]
Read MoreCygnal Poll: Hawley Leads McCaskill Nearly At Margin of Error
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – With just seven days until the midterm elections, a poll by Cygnal, a national polling and research firm, shows Republican challenger Josh Hawley with a 3-point advantage over incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill in Missouri’s US Senate race. “People won’t find many surprises in the results of this poll; Hawley continues to lead and it […]
Read MoreCygnal Poll: Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Not Enough to Move Voters in TN Senate Race
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – With only 23 days left until the November 6 midterm elections, a poll by Cygnal, a Republican polling and research firm, shows Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Democrat Phil Bredesen has done little to move the needle in the race. The 28-year-old superstar stunned fans by breaking her career-long political silence on Instagram with […]
Read MoreCell Completes Needed
The Question(s) How many people do you know who still use a landline phone? How many do you know who would need a plastic surgeon to remove the cell phone from the palm of their hand? The Answer Despite the number of people in the second category (let’s call them cell-phoners) continually increasing relative to […]
Read MorePigskin, Politics, and Polling: Five Ways Polling Can Ensure A Winning (Election) Season
Heat. Humidity. Sweat. Two guys hitting each other for the fun of it. Welcome to college football! College football kicked off (finally) on Saturday with a bang. The bands played, the fans screamed, and the players left it all on the field on the way to a “W.” Fresh out of Fall camp, the players were prepared. That’s what Fall camp is all about – putting […]
Read MoreVoter Turnout – Is a Blue Wave Coming?
Crunch time is right around the corner! Thankfully, the college football season starts soon, too. With summer ending, fall races are gearing up to be as exciting as the Kick Six – at least for us Auburn fans. Prognosticators are touting a blue wave potentially washing up on the political shores of our country, but is there data […]
Read MorePrimary Turnout May – or May Not – Signal a Blue Wave
Two articles I read today do a great job of dampening (see what I did there?) the blue wave predictions for November. The first, an excellent piece by Stefan Hankin in Campaigns & Elections, digs into the turnout numbers for primaries this year compared to the last midterm wave – 2010. Read the whole thing, but the […]
Read MoreMadrid Trip: International Polling & Research Ripe for Disruption
If you’ve never been to Madrid, Spain, go ahead and put it on the list. This beautiful, laid-back metropolis has all the charm of Old Europe with the prices of South America – and has the kind, friendly people to go with it. I recently traveled to Madrid with a team of Latin American presidential […]
Read MorePoll Script Writing 101: What Questions Should You Be Asking?
They key to asking the right questions is to ask questions. Let me rephrase that. The key to having questions in your political survey script (also known as an instrument) that will give you the information you want is to first ask yourself some questions. 1) Why am I doing a poll? This may seem […]
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