FiveThirtyEight Polls the Pollsters

MuhlenbergFiveThirtyEight spends so much of its time writing about polls that they’ve decided to devote some time to the pollsters themselves.

Last month, the site revealed the grades for dozens of polling institutions, including several from the Keystone state. This week, they surveyed twenty-six high quality organizations to find out their thoughts about the November elections.

Among the twenty-six were two PA-based pollsters: Berwood Yost of Franklin & Marshall and Christopher P. Borick of Muhlenberg College.

Borick actually had the opportunity to be quoted in the piece, where he talked about why he believes the Republicans will win a majority in the U.S. Senate this year.

“The President’s fairly poor job approval,” he stated as explanation for the prediction.

He was also quoted about Muhlenberg’s plans to transition to online polling. With less people responding to telephone polls, it is increasingly becoming more useful and cost-effective to conduct surveys entirely online.

Carl Bialik of FiveThirtyEight wrote that some firms believe the point when Internet-based polling surpasses phone-based polling is rapidly approaching.

“We are beginning to consider transition plans,” Borick said. “But since costs have remained acceptable and results very accurate, our transition is not imminent.”

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