{"id":21490,"date":"2018-10-18T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=21490"},"modified":"2018-10-19T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:27:19","slug":"learn-about-political-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/21490","title":{"rendered":"Learn about political polling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Louis Fucilla, Political Science Dept., will talk about political polling on Thurs, Oct 18, at 6:30pm in the City Council chambers in Whitewater’s city hall<\/strong> (312 W Whitewater St<\/a>). It’s the League of Women Voters\u00ae of the Whitewater Area<\/a>‘s November program, but it’s open to all!<\/p>\n

You can check out some of the latest polls<\/strong> at Real Clear Politics<\/a>, PollingReport.com<\/a>, FiveThirtyEight<\/a>, or the Marquette Law School Poll<\/a>. Andersen Library provides access to a public opinion database Polling the Nations<\/a>, and the Library also is having a trial of the Roper Center’s iPOLL<\/a> database (the trial runs until November 15, 2018). Try it out!<\/p>\n

You can learn more about political polling and voting behavior<\/strong> with many articles in Andersen Library’s databases, such as “On public opinion polls and voters’ turnout<\/a>” (Journal of Public Economic Theory<\/em>, 2018, vol.20:no.2, pp.239-256, doi:10.1111\/jpet.12274) and “Using Wikipedia to Predict Election Outcomes<\/a>” (Public Opinion Quarterly<\/em>, 2017, vol.81:no.3, pp.714-735, doi:10.1093\/poq\/nfx007) that advocates supplementing poll data with online information-seeking behavior to improve election forecasting accuracy.<\/p>\n

Please ask a librarian<\/a> (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk) if you\u2019d like assistance with finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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