Special Issue of Public Opinion Quarterly: Polling Politics, Media, and Election Campaigns

Did the polls “get it wrong” in the 2004 election? Do certain polls have a “liberal” or “conservative” bias, as alleged by partisans in the campaign? Did journalists accurately cover polling controversies in 2004, or did they contribute to them? These and other questions are addressed in an upcoming special issue of Public Opinion Quarterly, which will be published in December, 2005.This special issue of POQ, edited by Lawrence Jacobs and Robert Shapiro, examines the polls, the media and their evolving relationship. Appearing on the 25th anniversary of an influential POQ symposium on the polls and the media, this issue assembles an extraordinary collection of national experts to take current stock of “the polls,” media reporting on them, and their use in the American political process at the beginning of the 21st century.

Polling Politics, Media, and Election Campaigns Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro Public Opin Q 2005 69: 635-641. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/5/635?etoc-

The Methods and Accuracy of Polling
The Accuracy of the National Preelection Polls in the 2004 Presidential Election Michael W. Traugott Public Opin Q 2005 69: 642-654. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/642?etoc

Toward an Open-Source Methodology: What We Can Learn from the Blogosphere Mark M. Blumenthal Public Opin Q 2005 69: 655-669. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/655?etoc

Pollsters Under Attack: 2004 Election Incivility and Its Consequences Robert P. Daves and Frank Newport Public Opin Q 2005 69: 670-681. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/670?etoc

Polling and the Media
Reporting "The Polls" in 2004 Kathleen A. Frankovic Public Opin Q 2005 69: 682-697. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/682?etoc

Political Polling and the New Media Culture: A Case of More Being Less Tom Rosenstiel Public Opin Q 2005 69: 698-715. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/698?etoc

Of Polls, Mountains: U.S. Journalists and Their Use of Election Surveys Thomas E. Patterson Public Opin Q 2005 69: 716-724. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/716?etoc

Can a Poll Affect Perception of Candidate Traits? Bruce W. Hardy and Kathleen Hall Jamieson Public Opin Q 2005 69: 725-743. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/725?etoc

Voters and Values in the 2004 Election Gary Langer and Jon Cohen Public Opin Q 2005 69: 744-759. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/744?etoc

Polls, Voters, and American Politics
Grassroots Mobilization and Voter Turnout in 2004 Daniel E. Bergan, Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, and Costas Panagopoulos Public Opin Q 2005 69: 760-777. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/760?etoc

Inequality and Democratic Responsiveness Martin Gilens Public Opin Q 2005 69: 778-796. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/5/778?etoc