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Is Gallup nonpartisan, or does it have connections/affinity to the Republican party? I vaguely recall some of the famous pollsters have political affinities tha
by palmotea 9mo ago
Is Gallup nonpartisan, or does it have connections/affinity to the Republican party? I vaguely recall some of the famous pollsters have political affinities that aren't very clear.
- dd8601fn 9mo agoAs far as I know they've always been considered to be very objective with high standards. Doesn't mean their methodologies always correctly predict outcomes or anything, just that I've never seen a serious case made that they're intentionally skewing results to influence outcomes.
- jakderrida 9mo agoThink of it more like the original poll. They originated the census weighting methodology. In statistics classes about methodologies and survey design, it ALWAYS starts with a reference to the Literary Digest poll being wrong about Alf Landon beating FDR and Gallup, a new poll, being dead right with only like a sample size of over 1000 while Literary Digest sampled all their readers. I don't recall them doing polls for commission like almost every other poll does.