Polling

By looking at which campaigns experienced staffers choose to work for, one can see which candidates the party is seriously signaling as potential nominees.

The campaign to make sense of the mid-term elections will begin almost the moment the polls close on Tuesday, and it will have a substantial effect on 2020.

A Peruvian soldier stands guard at a polling station during municipal elections in Lima, Peru, on October 7th, 2018.

A man casts his ballot for the general elections, on March 7th, 2018, at a polling station in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

We canvassed the world of the social and behavioral sciences, looking for rising stars whose careers promise to make a lasting mark. We'll be profiling the top 30 throughout the month of April.

Our answers to survey questions have more to do with the wording than our actual ideologies.

The results are misleading, and tell us more about our own insecurities than they do Obama's popularity.

Actually talking to voters can be invaluable. It can also lead you to believe things that are completely wrong.

The idea of such a small number of people being used to predict how millions will vote sometimes irks observers, but it's actually a very reliable process—most of the time.

New research finds the political opinions expressed by Latinos in America can be quite different depending on whether they are polled in English or Spanish.

For the first time ever, the American National Election Study has allowed respondents in its annual survey of trust in government to answer "never." Here's how that simple addition changed results.

Last week's fight over PPP's decision to hold back the results of a poll highlight how too many pollsters operating in the political sphere take an Ivory Tower attitude, disavowing responsibility for the consequences of their work.

How are politicians supposed to take cues from their constituents when polls don't account for economic realities?

Comparing a multi-year study of attitudes with other surveys suggests that America's growing acceptance of gay marriage does not necessarily mean that individual feelings have shifted.

Noah Davis talks to the democratic pollster and political strategist about the over-reliance on numbers, understanding new places, and being really intelligent.