During elections, political polls provide critical data for the support each candidate receives. For that reason, the measurement of questions asking about candidate support has been receiving some research attention. As the online survey is increasingly becoming a widely used tool for public opinion and election polls, evaluation of the measurement error associated with this survey mode is of ...

The outcome of the 2000 Presidential election has generated many serious concerns that promise to have long-term consequences for the political process. The flawed count in Florida, and multiple problems of electoral administration at county and municipal levels, serve to undermine the legitimacy and authority of the Presidential office, as well as public confidence in the fairness of the resul...

BACKGROUND Public opinion polls indicate that a majority of Canadians are in favour of euthanasia. However, there have been many criticisms of the validity of these findings. The objective of this study was to assess public opinion towards euthanasia while controlling for possible threats to validity indicated in the literature review. METHODS A telephone public opinion poll was conducted in ...

Multilevel regression with poststratification (MRP) has become widely used in political science to estimate subnational opinion from national polls. This method takes into account both demographic and state-level effects and has greatly expanded knowledge of public opinion at the subnational level. In this paper, I assess the use of MRP on two cluster-sampled polls, the American National Electi...