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The 1 essential question for correct Election 2016 polling. (RBDR 09.09.2016)

Today on RBDR: What is wrong with polling? There are lots of theories after a plethora of messy polling projections from around the world in recent years. Now, The Hill has published a solution for the U.S. presidential election polling from PollyVote.com’s Andreas Graefe. He says accurate polling comes down to asking and collecting the answers to one question: who does each respondent expect to win?

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Pressure on Twitter to replace polls. The determining age group in Election 2016. (RBDR 08.24.2016)

Today on RBDR:

1) There are proponents for Twitter to replace polls due to their questionable quality and more obvious inaccuracies.

2) John Zogby Strategies reveals the demographic group to watch closely to learn who will win the 2016 U.S. presidential sweepstakes.

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Twitter tweets its IPO; Rentrak primed for takeover? GOP pollsters mull how to improve their work (RBDR–9/16/13)

Today: 1) Twitter tweeted about its filing with the SEC for an IPO. 2) Bloomberg News foresees a Rentrak sale to one of several larger media research companies. 3) GOP pollsters are reviewing their 2012 polling methods with an eye on making changes.

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Joel Benenson disagrees but knows why 3/4 of U.S. “thinks” polls are biased; Many tweeters unknowingly reveal their physical location (RBDR–9/12/13)

Today: 1) Benenson Strategy Group President Joel Benenson (Obama’s pollster and advisor in his two presidential campaigns) responds to some of the results from Kantar’s survey that shows Americans think polling is biased.  2) A USC graduate student, Chris Weidemann, studied Twitter and he concluded that 20% of tweets inadvertently release the user’s physical location. He also developed an app that can detect tweeters’ locations.

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American Polls Biased? 3/4 of Americans Think So (RBDR–9/10/13)

A Kantar poll says three-quarters of U.S. citizens believe polls are biased. 2) A handful of giant advertising and marketing businesses form the new Cross Cultural Marketing and Communications Association. 3) LinkedIn issues a secondary public offering of 5.4 million shares that is projected to raise $1.2 billion.

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