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Both David J. Bender, a veteran political analyst and former contributing editor for George, and Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup polling agency, say that there are more polls this year than ever before...
...Gallup's Newport defends his profession, saying the volatility is not generated by the polls but by the voters...
...most remarkable statistics in the Kaiser report showed large shifts in the desires of parents in the last two decades. A similar survey done in 1981 by the Gallup Organization, on behalf of the Phi Delta Kappa association of professional educators, showed 84 percent believed high schools should teach about sexually transmitted diseases. This figure jumped to 98 percent in the Kaiser report...
...would vote, but I don't know enough to vote responsibly." Gallup reports that slightly more than one-third of Americans claimed they had given "a great deal of thought" to the presidential campaign, compared with 42 and 52 percent at comparable times in 1996 and 1992, respectively...
...should point out one other detail. Seeing the same poll results each morning shouldn't reinforce people's beliefs about the strength of a candidate's lead. It turns out that the most cited polls, those coming out each day from Voter.com and Gallup, are rolling surveys. They represent three to four day trends. When a new poll comes out, it's actually 67 to 75 percent an old poll. So, not surprisingly, the polls don't change much...