The Massachusetts Senate race was a real world example of what opinion polling data has shown.
Mr. Silver is far more expert in the analysis of public opinion polling data than I am.
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Mr. WALTERS: Well, when you look at the public opinion polling, the biggest issue is jobs and the economy.
But because it is based on actual votes, rather than opinion polling, it is pored over by pundits and party strategists looking for clues as to the real state of the parties.
The result is Explaining Cameron's Coalition, co-authored with polling consultant Mark Gill, which dissects both the election campaign and the political climate in which it took place, with the aid of detailed opinion polling.
In some ways, the way you express your opinion in a polling place is by casting a ballot.
Only old ladies answer the phone, complains Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm.
An opinion poll released Wednesday by polling group Ifop and Le Monde newspaper found 65% of those surveyed support equal marriage rights for same-sex couples -- a clear majority of the population.
As for a rise in the consumption tax, an opinion survey conducted at the polling stations by Asahi Shimbun, a newspaper, found that more voters favoured a doubling in the tax, to 10%, than were against it.
Some of our recent interactive polling dramatically shows how opinion has moved against Obama.
Latest polling evidence suggests that UKIP is polling around 6% in opinion polls - twice what they polled at the last general election.
Deborah Mattinson, co-founder and joint chief executive of Opinion Leader Research - which carries out polling for political parties - said older women were more likely to vote than younger women, although many older female voters were disillusioned with the political process and the Labour government in particular.
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The centre-left coalition headed by Mr Bersani has consistently led the opinion polls for the lower house vote, polling up to 10% ahead its rivals.
The tragedy is so profound that recent polling suggests it may have shifted public opinion and re-energized discussions about how far the Second Amendment should extend.
The group--formerly known as the American Trial Lawyers Association--criticized the Chamber for using a polling method that failed to discriminate between uninformed opinion and actual data about states like West Virginia.
MMI, a polling organisation in Oslo, says the biggest shift in opinion towards membership has been in coastal areas.
Despite this, there has not been a uniform trend of ever-increasing support for a Yes vote - the polling data suggesting instead a constant ebb and flow of generally supportive public opinion.
The doubts over the conduct of the election are particularly troubling because most opinion polls show that the two candidates are now neck-and-neck: one polling firm, Datum, gives them both 46%.
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Polling showed Florio with high name identification, but many voters still have an unfavorable opinion of him and he probably couldn't beat Whitman anyway.
Mr Russomanno had led opinion polls for weeks but had seen a drop in support in the last few days before polling which he blamed on fierce attacks from his two leading opponents.
Perhaps even more worryingly, in national opinion polls Labour is flatlining: it is roughly 20 points behind the Tories, in the sort of polling territory that governments find it very hard to come back from.
This comes after weeks of spotty polling, in which wide-scale power outages and destruction made it difficult to find a truly random opinion sample.
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