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Public opinion polls

Sample Truths

by Christopher Beha,

One of the few clear goods to have emerged from the social and political turmoil of the past decade is a collapse of faith in public opinion polls. Last fall’s…

Future Sense

by Christopher Beha,

In February 2017, one month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the New York Times ran a story by Nate Cohn, with the headline president’s approval ratings are down, but how much…

Bombast Bursting in Air

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The story, so far, of the 2016 election

The Bleakness Stakes

by Thomas Frank,

Inside the Snow Globe

by Sam Knight,

Dodging the secret police with the last pollster in Belarus

Surveying the wreckage

by Jon Lackman,

Why polls of Iraq are likely to tell us little

Frank Luntz, empty vessel

by Jeff Shear,

Readings

Drawn by Peter Hannan,

Candidates and cat litter

by Harper’s Staff,

Voting in the Passive Voice

by Christopher Hitchens,

What polling has done to the American democracy

The trust of Rappahannock County

by Eugene J. McCarthy,

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