Election Quote by Jessica Tarlov

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in…

— George Gallup

Polls are a snapshot in time and America - the American people - are whole people. They lead whole lives and they need us…

— Laphonza Butler

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear…

— Rick Perlstein

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

— Ken Livingstone

Pre-poll and exit polls have now become a commercial proposition. No longer are they viewed as means for a debate or means for enriching…

— N. Bhaskara Rao

And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in…

— Jim Bolger

As a general rule it's not good to jump onto too much analysis of an election 24 hours after people have cast votes. There's…

— Jason Johnson

Polling itself, and polling analysis, have a margin of error - and a margin of interpretation; anyone who is too certain should not be…

— Harry Enten

There's a lot of work to be done in the polling world, and a need to continue to rethink how we do what we…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

We have something more reliable than a poll that changes everyday.

— Mike Huckabee

Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.

— Reid Hoffman

I was surprised that when you get into electoral politics how scientific the analysis was in the electorate. You can identify on a state-by-state…

— Bill Foster