From Straw Polls to Scientific Sampling: The Evolution of Opinion Polling
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1 Measuring Public Opinion (HA) In 1936, in the depths of the Great Depression, Literary Digest announced that Alfred Landon would decisively defeat Franklin Roosevelt in the upcoming presidential election. Based on his own surveys, a young pollster named George Gallup disagreed with that prediction. Not only did Gallup choose Roosevelt as the winner, he publicly challenged newspapers and magazines to show the two polls side by side. The result was a triumph for Gallup, with Roosevelt winning by a landslide. For Literary Digest, the most widely circulated magazine in the country, the embarrassment of wrongly calling the election proved disastrous. Its credibility destroyed, the magazine soon slid into bankruptcy. From Straw Polls to Scientific Sampling: The Evolution of Opinion Polling After the 1936 election, many wondered how Literary Digest had blundered so badly. The magazine had a record of predicting presidential elections accurately since 1916 using straw polls [straw poll: an informal survey of opinion conducted by a show of hands or some other means of counting preferences]. A straw poll is an informal survey of opinion conducted by a show of hands or some other means of counting preferences. So confident was the Digest of this method of predicting elections that it boasted of its uncanny accuracy. The magazine conducted its 1936 straw poll by mailing out more than 10 million ballots for people to mark with their choices for president. It predicted the winner based on the over 2 million ballots that were returned. What the Digest editors did not take into account was that their sample was biased. Most of the ballots went to people with telephones or registered automobiles. During the depths of the Depression, people wealthy enough to have phones and cars tended to be Republicans who favored Landon. The secret of Gallup s success was his careful use of scientific sampling [scientific sampling: the selection of a small group of people that is representative of the whole population; used in opinion polling]. Sampling is the process of selecting a small group of people who are representative of the whole population. Rather than mailing out surveys blindly, Gallup interviewed a sample of
2 voters selected to mirror the entire electorate. His survey results underestimated Roosevelt s popularity on Election Day, but he did predict the winner correctly. His success marked the birth of the modern opinion poll [opinion poll: a method of measuring public opinion by asking questions of a random sample of people and using their answers to represent the views of the broader population]. The Polling Process: Sample, Survey, and Sum Up Professional polling organizations today follow much the same methods pioneered by Gallup and other early pollsters, though with a few improvements. The first step is to identify the population to be surveyed. The target population might be all adults, members of a political party, a specific age group, or people living in one community. Most polling today is done by telephone. Phoning people randomly ensures that pollsters interview a representative sample of people. In most random samples [random sample: a group of people selected at random from the general population; used in opinion polling], every individual has a chance of being selected. The number of people surveyed usually ranges from 500 to 1,500. Internet surveys are also widely used. The opinions gathered in the survey are summed up and reported in terms of the percent choosing each response. Most polls also report a margin of error stated as plus or minus some number of percentage points. The margin of error [margin of error: a measure of the accuracy of an opinion poll] indicates how accurately the sample surveyed reflects the views of the target population. If the margin of error is small, you can assume that the results reported are close to the opinions of the population as a whole. The Use of Polling to Measure Public Sentiment George Gallup saw public opinion polls as the modern equivalent of the old-fashioned New England town meeting. Politicians, he said, should view poll results as a mandate from the people. No longer could public officials ignore voter sentiment, he argued, by claiming that public opinion was unknowable. Today, opinion polls are widely used as means of gathering information about public sentiment. Businesses use polls to measure consumers attitudes about their products. Groups of all sorts use polls to find out what their members are concerned about.
3 News organizations commission polls to measure the views of the American people on major issues of the day. One regularly repeated opinion poll, for example, asks people to respond to this open-ended question: What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today? As you might expect, the results change over time as new issues arise and capture the interest of the public. Other news media polls ask very specific public policy questions. CNN, for example, conducted a poll early in 2007 to gauge public opinion on the issue of global warming. The poll asked, Do you think the government should or should not put new restrictions on emissions from cars and industrial facilities such as power plants and factories in an attempt to reduce the effects of global warming? Seventy-five percent of the 500 adults surveyed answered that the government should impose new restrictions. Whether such a result would change the mind of a lawmaker opposed to added restrictions is hard to know. But a legislator who agreed with the majority view might have been encouraged by this poll to press harder for new emission controls. Presidents and other public officials use polls to measure how well they are doing in the eyes of the voters. They use the results to help them develop policies that they hope the public will support. In addition, the news media report regularly on the rise and fall of presidential approval ratings. During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan came to be known as the Teflon president because bad news never seemed to stick long enough to seriously damage his popularity. The Use of Polling in Political Campaigns Three special kinds of polls are widely used during elections. A long and detailed benchmark poll [benchmark poll: a long, detailed survey of voter opinion designed to help political candidates craft their campaigns] is often used by prospective candidates to test the waters before beginning a campaign. Candidates use information from such polls to identify which messages to emphasize in their campaigns and which to avoid. Tracking polls [tracking poll: a survey used on a daily basis during a political campaign to measure the level of support for a candidate ] are conducted during a campaign to measure support for a candidate on day-by-day basis. Pollsters survey groups of likely voters each night to find out how their views have been affected by the political events of that day. While each day s poll is just a snapshot of the electorate s views, taken together, tracking polls can reveal trends and shifts in attitudes over time. Exit polls [exit poll: a survey of voters, taken as they leave the polling place, to predict the winners on Election Day] are used by campaigns and the news media to predict the winners on Election Day long before the polls close. An exit poll is a survey of voters taken at polling places just after they have cast their ballots. Because ballots are cast in secret, exit polling is the only way we have of finding out how different age or ethnic groups of people voted and why. The use of exit polls by television networks led to controversy in 1980 when newscasters predicted that Ronald Reagan had won the presidency long before polls closed in the West. Critics charged that announcing the winner so early discouraged western voters from going to the polls. As a result, television networks are more careful now not to predict the winner in the presidential race until the polls have closed everywhere in the country. In 2004, an exit poll based on interviews with voters in 49 states appeared on the Internet early on Election Day. The poll showed John Kerry leading George W. Bush, prompting Kerry s aides to start polishing his victory speech. This false prediction raised serious questions about the accuracy of exit polls. They are not perfect and they have never been perfect and we have never taken them to be perfect, says a CBS News senior vice president, Linda Mason.
4 The Misuse of Polling to Influence Public Opinion At times polls are used more to shape than to measure public opinion. Elected officials and special interest groups sometimes claim to be assessing public opinion by sending out mail surveys. The questions in these surveys are often rigged to generate highly favorable results for the sponsor of the poll. Former congressman John Dowdy of Texas, for example, once sent a newsletter survey to his constituents with this question: A drive has recently been announced to destroy the independence of Congress by purging
5 Congressmen who refuse to be rubber stamps for the executive arm of government. Would you want your representative in Congress to surrender to the purge threat and become a rubber-stamped Congressman? It is hard to imagine anyone answering yes to such a highly charged question. Thus, not only are mail-in straw polls highly unreliable, as the Literary Digest editors discovered. The results can also be skewed. Television and radio shows also use call-in and Internet straw polls to report public opinion. In 1992, news anchor Connie Chung reported on the basis of a call-in poll that 53 percent of Americans reported being worse off than four years ago. She went on to say, This does not bode well for President Bush. A scientific poll conducted at the same time, but not released until later, showed that only 32 percent of the population felt worse off than four years before. By then, however, it was too late to repair whatever damage might have been done to George H. W. Bush s approval rating. Despite criticism from scientific pollsters, some news shows continue to promote call-in or Internet polls and report the results. One public opinion textbook recommends viewing such polls as the expression of bored people with strong feelings on some subjects [who] are willing to pay a long-distance charge to register their views. The 1990s saw the appearance of a highly suspect form of polling called the push poll [push poll: a phone survey sponsored by a political candidate that provides damaging information on an opponent in order to push voters away from that opponent]. These are phone surveys, usually made close to Election Day, on behalf of a candidate. The pollsters sound like they want your views on the election. But their real purpose is to push you away from voting for their candidate s opponent by spreading damaging information. A typical push poll begins by asking for whom you plan to vote on Election Day. Should you answer that you plan to vote for the opposing candidate, the next question might be, Would you support that candidate if you knew that she wants to cut spending for schools? The purpose of the question is not to give you useful information, but rather to raise last-minute doubts. The American Association for Public Opinion Research has declared push polls to be an unethical campaign practice.
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