Sure, I really think that polls are a bad idea, not because things shouldn't be attached to tweets, but because I think constructing polls is hard for users to do, thus resulting in a lot of shitty polls.
(I limited the search to cases where it was actually possible to construct a polling average rather than relying upon a single poll — meaning those where there had been at least two polls in the field late in the race).
They'll construct your polling, run your focus groups, design your political advertising, and decide when your ads are going to run.
Frank Luntz –who constructs polls and focus groups to generate the buzzword results desired by the people who hire Frank Luntz – conducted another suspicious-looking Fox News focus group in which one panelist didn't like that Obama filled his speech with "a lot of clapping".
This creates the impression that when "news stories" happen, congressional back-benchers have no choice but to construct a Facebook poll about it.
The Morning Construct survey polled 1,890 adults online and found that 35percentt of them either thought the two names belonged to different polices, or said they didn't know that they were names for the same healthcare law.
A couple of large face-to-face surveys, more rigorously constructed than regular polls, have then been tapped to pinpoint the voters they missed – the very old, the apathetic young, and the "too busy to talk".
And although Mr. Romney holds a solid lead over each of the individual conservatives, he does not hold a lead over them collectively: Mr. Perry, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich together have in excess of 50 percent of the vote there, based on a trendline constructed from recent polls of the state, as compared to 34 percent for Mr. Romney.
Similarly, Igo (2007) has argued that different types of population surveys, polls and gallops and other studies help construct the ways in which the population and their perceptions and opinions are projected, giving rise to reified notions of national self.
Concerns have also been raised about the Sun and Survation's methodology, after it was revealed that the poll was constructed by calling people with "Muslim surnames".
