The Voter's Guide to Election Polls

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Without a doubt, this is the best treatment of polling and its consequences that has been written in the last forty years. -- Sidney Kraus, Cleveland State University Traugott and Lavrakas provide exceptionally clear, refreshingly concise, and uniformly accurate answers to a series of citizen-inspired questions about the use of polls in election campaigns. -- Thomas E. Mann, The Brookings Institution Traugott and Lavrakas have done an outstanding job in this primer on election polls. Written in clear, easily accessible style, it should be in the required reading list of any undergraduate course that deals with public opinion and polls-and many graduate courses as well. All journalists who report poll results, including those who considering themselves to be highly experienced will find it worth their while to use this guide when reading the poll releases that come across their desks. -- Irving Crespi, author ofPublic Opinion, Polls, and Democracy This guide should help readers become not only more informed consumers of information, but also more informed, involved citizens. Recommended. * CHOICE * Traugott and Lavrakas have written a much-needed election survey primer. It provides a clear and concise exposition of the purposes, practices, and pitfalls of modern polling. -- Andrew Kohut, The Pew Research Center