| Most of these pollsters have models based on a conventional election, not one in which turnout patterns move in one marked direction. |
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| The findings of these studies puzzled media researchers and opinion pollsters at the time. |
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| That was perhaps, the most accurate reading of the public pulse that I've seen by pollsters. |
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| Political scientists and candidate pollsters track opinion on candidates and issues. |
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| Comparisons between polls done by competing pollsters are absolutely meaningless. |
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| Think about it, you are sitting at home and pollsters are actually calling and acting interested in you. |
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| The conflict in views between opinion pollsters over what is going on in the election has reached its most acute over recent polls. |
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| The results startled even the pollsters who conducted and analyzed the surveys. |
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| No one but the pollsters themselves and political fanatics will care which pollster got it right or wrong. |
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| Then the pollsters started conducting scientific polls of the general population. |
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| He was one of the 50,000 or so people on the books of YouGov, the internet pollsters, but was hardly ever asked for his views. |
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| We will never know, since pollsters, like trial lawyers, always avoid questions whose answers might prove embarrassing or unforeseen. |
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| I think it's hard for pollsters, in all fairness to them, to measure what's going on out there. |
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| Other pollsters ask their respondents to qualify their answers, instead of giving simple yes-or-no replies. |
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| Political parties and opinion and exit pollsters have a love-hate relationship with each other. |
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| Since then sociologists and pollsters have returned periodically to gauge the mood of Middle America. |
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| A lot of political operatives and pollsters will tell you this presidential election will hinge on foreign policy. |
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| While most pollsters say they would contact clients whose analyses didn't tally with the numbers, few ever do. |
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| They usually reveal more about the pollsters ' prejudices than the public's opinions. |
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| Either we pick up a fair fee for our trouble, or we get rid of those blasted opinion pollsters. |
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| The tragedy is that statisticians and pollsters take these pathetic twits seriously. |
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| There are many reasons why most journalists, analysts, TV pundits and even the pollsters got it so wrong. |
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| The Pakistani commentators and the pollsters are predicting that my party is going to win tomorrow. |
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| Millions tell pollsters they would vote Lib Dem if the voting system let them. |
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| Certainly there is broad public support for educational reform, or so the pollsters tell us. |
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| I think the real blame lies with the Labor Party's strategists, media advisers and pollsters. |
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| Then, of course, there are pollsters who maintain that their own consumer surveys are superior. |
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| Now, according to at least some pollsters, his support among that core constituency is slipping. |
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| While always judged in retrospect in terms of their ability to predict a result, pollsters are at pains to emphasise that their numbers should never be regarded as predictive. |
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| This mid-election cycle enthusiasm is anchored in recent polling and other factors, Republican strategists and pollsters say. |
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| To pollsters, a late 50-something is a baby boomer and an early 40-something is a Gen-Xer. |
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| Over the past few years, pollsters repeatedly have corroborated the phenomenon. |
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| On Friday, pollsters will be crunching numbers coming out of the convention. |
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| If the pollsters are overestimating Labour's support once more, the consequences of their blunders could leave a lot of leftish voters looking very silly. |
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| Gallup pollsters have consistently found that the more wealthy and educated a woman is, the more likely she is to drink. |
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| Information collected by pollsters could be tainted by biases of survey questions as well as the biases of the pollsters themselves, said Heywood. |
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| In mid-March, conservative Rasmussen Reports pollsters said Hayworth trailed McCain by seven points. |
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| Contrary to the musings of various pollsters and political pundits, Democrats never stood a chance. |
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| No one should be fooled by the illusory claims of the opinion pollsters. |
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| However, it was reported that pollsters had in fact picked up a late swing to Labour immediately prior to polling day, not the Conservatives. |
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| The dirty trick of choice among both parties now is the push-poll, which pollsters say is not a poll at all. |
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| Several theories have been put forward to explain the inaccuracy of the pollsters. |
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| Another theory was the issue of 'shy Tories' not wanting to openly declare their intention to vote Conservative to pollsters. |
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| The failure of the pollsters became apparent when voting ended and the BBC exit poll was broadcast at 10pm. |
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| A whopping 82 percent of Republicans and 78 percent of independents told the pollsters they wanted to give everyone on Capitol Hill the heave-ho, the New York Post reports. |
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| Rick Perry's expected presidential candidacy has hired Glen Bolger, one of the Republican Party's leading pollsters, as a senior strategist and pollster. |
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