straw poll

Examples of straw poll in the following topics:

• Early Public Opinion Research and Polling

  • The first known example of an opinion poll was an 1824 local straw poll by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian for the Jackson Adams race.
  • The first known example of an opinion poll was a local straw poll conducted by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian in 1824, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States Presidency.
  • Since Jackson won the popular vote in the full election, such straw votes gradually became more popular, but they remained local, usually city-wide, phenomena.
  • The Literary Digest soon went out of business, while polling started to take off.
  • By the 1950s, various types of polling had spread to most democracies.

• Types of Polls

  • The main types of polls are: opinion, benchmark, bushfire, entrance, exit, deliberative opinion, tracking, and the straw poll.
  • Brushfire polls are polls taken during the period between the benchmark and tracking polls.
  • A straw poll or straw vote is a poll with nonbinding results.
  • Straw polls provide dialogue among movements within large groups.
  • In meetings subject to rules of order, impromptu straw polls often are taken to see if there is enough support for an idea to devote more meeting time to it, and (when not a secret ballot) for the attendees to see who is on which side of a question.

• The Literary Digest Poll

  • Incorrect polling techniques used during the 1936 presidential election led to the demise of the popular magazine, The Literary Digest.
  • As it had done in 1920, 1924, 1928 and 1932, it conducted a straw poll regarding the likely outcome of the 1936 presidential election.
  • The 1936 poll showed that the Republican candidate, Governor Alfred Landon of Kansas, was likely to be the overwhelming winner.
  • In retrospect, the polling techniques employed by the magazine were to blame.
  • Critique the problems with the techniques used by the Literary Digest Poll

• Polls Versus Votes

  • These are really polls rather than votes, but the developers may choose to treat the result as binding.
  • As with any poll, be sure to make it clear to the participants that there's a write-in option: if someone thinks of a better option not offered in the poll questions, her response may turn out to be the most important result of the poll.

• The Gallup Organization

  • Gallup Inc. was founded in 1958, when George Gallup grouped all of his polling operations into one organization.
  • Gallup currently has four divisions: Gallup Poll, Gallup Consulting, Gallup University, and Gallup Press.
  • In 1958 the modern Gallup Organization was formed from a merger of several polling organizations.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • For the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Gallup was rated 17th out of 23 polling organizations in terms of the precision of its pre-election polls relative to the final results.

• The Gallup Poll

  • The Gallup Poll is a public opinion poll that conducts surveys in 140 countries around the world.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • Poll analyst Nate Silver found that Gallup's results were the least accurate of the 23 major polling firms Silver analyzed, having the highest incorrect average of being 7.2 points away from the final result.
  • This fact has been a major criticism in recent times of the reliability Gallup polling, compared to other polls, in its failure to compensate accurately for the quick adoption of "cell phone only" Americans.
  • Examine the pros and cons of the way in which the Gallup Poll is conducted

• A Closer Look at the Gallup Poll

  • The Gallup Poll is an opinion poll that uses probability samples to try to accurately represent the attitudes and beliefs of a population.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup, Inc. that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • The poll has been around since 1935.
  • The Gallup Poll is an opinion poll that uses probability sampling.
  • This provided a much quicker way to poll many people.

• The Year the Polls Elected Dewey

  • As the campaign drew to a close, the polls showed Truman was gaining.
  • Let's take a closer look at the polls.
  • The Gallup, Roper, and Crossley polls all predicted a Dewey win.
  • This would cause significant error in the results of the poll.
  • Pollsters, in reality, were left to poll whomever they chose.

• Representing Objections Fairly

  • You may be tempted to weaken an objection to your argument by turning it into a "straw man," or a flimsy version of the original point.
  • A straw man argument can make a point overly simplistic, describe an incomplete concept or take a point out of context.
  • In truth, the straw man is a well-known tactic, and readers can detect it quite easily.

• Telephone and Internet Polling

  • Internet and telephone polls are very useful as they are much cheaper than most other polls and are able to reach a wide population.
  • Online polls are becoming an essential research tool for a variety of research fields, including marketing and official statistics research.
  • Web polls are faster, simpler, and cheaper than many other polling methods.
  • An important aspect of telephone polling is the use of interviewers.
  • However, there are some disadvantages to telephone polling.