Campaign 2006

The crisis of polling

How accurate is polling? Where do the numbers comes from? What do they mean? Are we becoming too poll driven in the electoral process?

Guests

• Frank Newport: Editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll. He's the author of a 2005 article with Minneapolis Star Tribune pollster Rob Daves, "Pollsters Under Attack: the 2004 Election Incivility and Its Consequences."
• Tom Hamburger: Political reporter with the Los Angeles Times and the co-author with Peter Wallsten of the forthcoming book, "One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century."

Resources

• The Gallup Organization
• About Frank Newport
• The Los Angeles Times
• Conference on polling at the Humphrey Institute