For example, if a polling sample had 56 percent women, but the pollster believed that the eventual electorate would be 52 percent women, they might weigh male respondents slightly more heavily in ...

The MoE is, in part, a reflection of the sample size used in the poll. When pollsters interview a sampling of people, they are making inferences about the broader and much larger population.

What all that means is this: Imagine if 100 different random samples of the same size were selected from the larger group, and then asked the same questions in the poll.

What all that means is this: Imagine if 100 different random samples of the same size were selected from the larger group, and then asked the same questions in the poll.

“You have to understand the sample methodology so they all balance out. You don’t want to have 90% of your surveys done by a text or 80% of your surveys done by a landline,” Nienstedt said.

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On behalf of The Heritage Foundation, J.L. Partners polled a nationally representative sample of 1,002 registered voters online between March 31, 2025 to April 3, 2025. Quotas were added to ensure ...

Public opinion polling has been my life’s work. I collected my first research data as a freshman in college, if you don’t count a neighborhood poll I did at age 5.