Public opinion polls: the UK general election - Smith - 1996SMITH, T. M. F. (1996), Public Opinion Polls; the UK General Election, 1992, J. R. Statist. Soc. A.,159, part 3, pp. 535-545.Smith, T. M. F. (1996): "Public Opinion Polls: The UK General Election, 1992," ...
Opinion Polls Abstract Apart from television, the most important new factor which has influenced elections in the post-war period has been the public opinion polls. No politician worth his salt is now ignorant of the latest state of the parties, as revealed by any one of half a dozen polls;...
In a light-hearted article written after the 2005 general election, the former Conservative Party Director of Campaigning expressed the view that opinion polls ‘bear very little reflection to what’s going on’, insisting that they ‘are made up anyway to reflect the view of the media which c...
They ask fair questions (i.e., they’re trying to discover what people actually think rather than doing “push polls” designed to produce pre-determined results) and they ask interesting questions. But that doesn’t mean I always like the answers. Reason-Rupe just did a major survey of ...
An example is the political polarisation of the United States, where opinion polls show near-normal distributions that drift apart over time in recent times (Geiger, 2014; Hohmann et al., 2023). This suggests that the mechanism we model has potential to map real-world phenomena. Trade-off ...
Mizoram Assembly Election 2018: BJP looks to make its mark in the state with highest concentration of tribals23 August 2018 Mizoram Opinion poll 2018 Election Survey Result Who will win 2018 Mizoram polls, Aaj Tak opinion/Exit poll, ABP News-Nielsen opinion/Exit poll, India Today cicer21 July...
has once again moved the goalposts on when Scotland should push for independence. Just a few years ago, the SNP leadership claimed that support for independence needed to reach 60% in the polls before they would take decisive action. Yet, now that support is inching ever closer to that figur...
An analysis of the accuracy of "trial heat" polls during the 1992 presidential election. There is little systematic research on the multitude of factors that influence the accuracy of poll results. This article examines six methodological facto... Lau,Richard,R. - 《Public Opinion Quarterly》 被...
6. Second it is meant to sway public opinion in favor of the opposition camp ahead of the 2012 CE election. 7. Both camps expressed optimism about the outcome with a certainty that was not apparent in any public opinion polls. 8. These hospices are trying to change public opinion about ...
Nevertheless an additional application would be possible, namely a sampling a number of cast votes, similar to exit polls in today's systems. According to another embodiment of the invention, the embodiments discussed above may be used in an e-government application. For example, this dual-...