(The Gallup pollsters and the health-care company Healthways have developed a polling project that aims to be a real-time U.S. Well-being Index. I think that a short-term time scale like that — daily polling of 1,000 people — kind of misses the point, but it's a useful experiment).
We're very excited to develop a new type of polling for media organizations that can give more voice to informed minds.
And, in an experiment to fix them, TechCrunch has partnered up with tech startup Reframe It, which is developing a deliberative polling product for technology policy issues with the help of a grant from the Knight Foundation.
"I did not take a poll, or develop an arbitrary formula that might sound good.
We develop a hybrid coordination system which implements a self-triggered communication policy, based on polling the neighbors upon need.
The Times's FiveThirtyEight blog has developed a measure of poll volatility that calculates how much a candidate's polling shifted month to month, above and beyond random variance.
He has developed a technique called "deliberative polling" and would like to bring the idea to the Internet.
Here's a summary of what we saw today: A gap opened between some national polls, in which Governor Romney appears to have developed a lead, and swing state polls favoring Obama.
If Mr. Obama develops a large lead in the polls — without any underlying improvement in the economic fundamentals — it will therefore adjust his numbers downward.
The Republican nominee, who has consistently trailed Hillary Clinton in the polls, has developed a combative relationship with the media, blacklisting a number of news outlets and pledging to pass stricter libel laws if elected.
