Day 15

Public Opinion: Analyzing polls about polling

Learning Targets:  Students will be able to....

• Explain how public opinion data that can impact elections and policy debates is affected by such scientific polling types and methods as:
• Type of poll (opinion polls, benchmark or tracking polls, entrance and exit polls)
• Sampling techniques, identification of respondents, mass survey or focus group, sampling error
• Type and format of questions

• Describe the relationship between scientific polling and elections and policy debates is affected by the:
• Importance of public opinion as a source of political influence in a given election or policy debate
• Reliability and veracity of public opinion data

Opener: ASAP

Strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed. 

    - James Carville, campaign strategist/political commentator, following the 2016 presidential election.

Activity #1: Polling - Analysis

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Activity #2: -  N-50 - Polling

LD - Polling a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a representative or random group of persons for the purpose of analysis.

SD - 

Examples - Telephone, internet, mail-in, exit polling

Non-Examples - US Census, election "polls", 

Related terms - Elections, Primaries, Political Parties

Close - Build Your Own Poll 

Open the link below and post your own polling questions using the provided template

  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jayY79FLfhZVO-PQMAg4PKPhs6fTlTlz9o2UMAPukuI/edit?usp=sharing

Choose what you believe is your best polling question and submit it via the link below to contribute to the "2020 Election Issue Poll".  

3A - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1I--ApVJt0ZnCF-HbT68bcsvyBnwr_ADE86KQoVimECY/edit?usp=sharing

Simply press the + button on the right-hand side of the screen to add a question.