Campaign Puts Polling Methods Under Microscope
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One poll last week had President Bush leading Democrat John Kerry by 13 percentage points while another showed the candidates tied in the U.S election race. What is going on with public opinion polls?
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The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that will track the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The second wave of this study included re-interviews of 1,821 people who were originally interviewed in November or early December. The extensive national survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, Calif., under the direction and supervision of AP's polling unit.
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Awash in a sea of public opinion polls &#151; national and state, telephone and Internet, independent and partisan &#151; voters must be seeing double by now. And it's about to get much worse as the presidential campaign heads into the home stretch. Those trying to make sense of the swirl of numbers need a "poll survival guide."
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By Julio Ojeda-Zapata and Rachel E. Stassen-Berger, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 22--Ah, temptation: You're a political campaign worker who is offered juicy inside info on your boss's archrival.
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This year&#39;s USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup polling on the presidential race is coming under attack from liberal critics who say Gallup&#39;s methods produce results that are biased in favor of President Bush.
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To casual consumers of campaign news - and that would be most voters - the past week may have been particularly perplexing.
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Democratic party leaders and presidential candidates have been taking swipes today. Their targets? One another.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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Voters are so deadlocked on their choice for president that the campaigns will need to focus on keeping the intensity of support high and turning them out on Election Day, according to pollsters who conducted a bipartisan survey.
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As the November presidential election nears, several groups are mobilizing to monitor the voting process -- including a group of observers from across the globe and over a thousand techies who will help evaluate voting machines. By Laila Weir.
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The Bush and Kerry campaigns, along with a range of advocacy groups, are concerned with the integrity of voting technology -- particularly in the states where votes matter most. By Jacob Ogles.
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The status of the Green Party candidate's nationwide ballot campaign
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Voters in recent surveys are more frequently describing themselves as Republicans, a shift that could affect November elections up and down the ticket if it continues.
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With the presidential election less than six weeks away, activists and security experts are ratcheting up concern over the use of touch-screen machines to cast votes.
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In a TIME survey of the electorate, we try to find out what candidate qualities are playing well and poorly with voters. Get details and your 24/7 political news on TIME's The Page
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By Matthew Leblanc, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Mar. 1--When Karl Skala used a Web-based message board last week to announce plans for an upcoming campaign function, he didn't think much about it.
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If you're tired of all those candidate polls after the long election season, you aren't alone. So are the pollsters.