Poll Performance
2024 Pennsylvania Polling: Focusing on Performance in the Horse Race isn’t Good Enough
We explore how oversimplified postmortem polling assessments can be more harmful than helpful.
Untangling and Explaining Voter Preferences in Our 2022 Midterm Surveys
We review the 2022 F&M polls about the Pennsylvania midterm elections, discuss how the choices we made affected how we thought about the races, and consider the lessons we will remember for future surveys.
Polling in the 2022 Pennsylvania Midterms
Analysis of the 2022 Pennsylvania midterm election polls, with an eye to understanding political poll performance and polling error.
Primary Polling in 2022
What are the limitations of primary election polling? We review political polls in the U.S. since 2000 to learn what polls can, and can't, tell us.
Polls: Helpful Tools for Reducing Uncertainty
In light of AAPOR's recent analysis of the 2020 election polls, we consider an important question: Have polls outlived their usefulness?
Assessing the 2020 Pennsylvania Election Polls
Our first newsletter reviews the 2020 polls and offers recommendations about how those interested in politics can best use polling information.