President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen admitted Thursday that he paid a man in 2015 to rig online opinion polls to favor Trump.
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VIDEO: How Polling Techniques Have Changed Since Last Election
Can polls be trusted? In 2016, polls in key states showed Hillary Clinton winning handily. Donald Trump won all three. What have we learned since then?
VIDEO: How FiveThirtyEight Calculates Data Of A Divided Nation
Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog burst onto the political scene in 2008, when he forecasted the popular vote for president within one percentage point.
Polling Mischief in Maine Shows Why We Need Ranked Choice Voting
Let’s make sure whoever wins this election actually has the support of a majority of Mainers. Let’s bring legitimacy back to our elections, and not shenanigans. Everyone needs to get behind ranked choice voting!
VIDEO: The Intersection of Technology and Polling Data
When it comes to elections, too much of the public focuses only at who is leading in polls. People who analyze opinion polls often make the same mistakes.
Why Purple Districts Elect the Most Extreme Legislators
Study titled “Geography, Uncertainty, and Polarization” has some revealing insight into American political polarization
Study finds pre-election polls are still as reliable as ever
Pre-election polls are not becoming less reliable, said a study Monday addressing public distrust stemming from surprise results
Special Oscars Poll Demonstrates Pairwise Vote Counting
This NewsHereNow Oscars poll allows you, or anyone who is familiar with the Oscar-nominated movies, to rank the movies using a 1-2-3 ballot. And then computer software calculates which movie is really most popular.
Taking measure of the support for Putin inside Russian
Despite chest-thumping of Putin’s more enthusiastic supporters, it’s unclear exactly how deep this devotion runs
Studying Political Party Affiliation Through Pickup Truck Density
If town has more sedans than pickup trucks, there’s an 88% chance the city in question voted Democrat