We conduct public opinion polls on a variety of topics to inform our audience on events in the news and other topics of interest. To ensure editorial control and independence, we pay for the polls ...

On any given day, much of the discussion is about the freshest polling numbers, with few heeding the lessons of previous campaigns that show how polls are frequently wrong and fail to capture ...

Tracking the state of the race between President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden, updated as polls are released. The NBC News National Polling Average is based on an unweighted ...

To understand this mindset, we conducted public opinion polling among 800 self-identified Jewish voters in two critical geographies: the swing state of Pennsylvania and the closely divided New ...

Pollsters are like weather forecasters — they can be wrong repeatedly and still don’t get fired. With less than 70 days until Election Day, the polls are all over the place. Former President ...

But that's a really bad habit; if a poll disagrees with every other poll, it's probably because that poll is off the mark. That said, outliers aren't necessarily wrong (especially when they come ...

The nuts and bolts of our public opinion surveys. A summary of ABC News polling standards and survey methodology follows. ABC News maintains standards for disclosure, validity, reliability and ...

PHOENIX — A majority of Arizona Republicans and independents think the state is heading in the wrong direction ... research firm conducted public opinion polling on the same issue in May ...

Bush, a new poll shows. In the latest CNN/ORC International poll, 51 percent of Americans said they viewed President Obama unfavorably. The same percentage of respondents had a negative opinion of ...