Polls

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Polls May Shape Biden’s Future. Are They Up to the Job?

The president’s chances increasingly rely on the possibility that the polls are misfiring.

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No Poll Can Tell Biden What He Needs to Hear

“Will this be the thing that causes his voters to abandon him? How much will this hurt his numbers?” are…

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I Was a Republican Partisan. It Altered the Way I Saw the World.

I’m having the strongest sense of déjà vu. In 2012, I was a Republican partisan. This was when I was…

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Three Theories for Why Trump’s Primary Results Are Not Matching Expectations

He has underperformed the polls in each of the first three contests.

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A Trump Conviction Could Cost Him Enough Voters to Tip the Election

Recent general-election polling has generally shown Donald Trump maintaining a slight lead over President Biden. Yet many of those polls…

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Why Biden’s Weakness Among Young Voters Should Be Taken Seriously

Almost all the polling shows the same pattern. Could the coming campaign restore Democrats’ usual advantage?

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The Crisis in Issue Polling, and What We’re Doing About It

A poll can be very close to the actual result but miss the key story line. We’ll try new question…

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In Ecuador, an Assassination Brings a Turning Point

Genevieve Glatsky, a reporter for the Andes bureau, discussed the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio, a presidential candidate who exposed governmental…

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How Did We Do? A Review of 2022 Before Our First Poll of 2023.

Trying to learn from a strong midterm run as we start surveying the G.O.P. primary.

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Wait, the Campaign Is Halfway Done?

In the so-called invisible primary, there’s often a clear relationship between early polling and the eventual outcome.

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