538's Pollster Ratings

[TomCADem]

Interesting analysis regarding the accuracy of polls. SurveyUSA comes out on top. Not surprisingly, Rasmussen has a significant Republican bias and only gets a C. Longtime stalwart Gallup does slightly better with a C+.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/pollster-ratings/

[Lucinda]

1. Wow. There are an awful lot of pollsters!

Interesting to thee their rankings! Thankie!

[Stallion]

2. These Have Been Out for 1 1/2 Years

so this really isn't analyzing current polling-he usually does an analysis after every 2 year election cycle

[TomCADem]

4. It is not news. Just an interesting resource regarding poll accuracy...

...since it seems that today's campaigns seem to focus entirely on polls, rather than actual issues.

[Stallion]

5. Yeah I Refer to them Weekly

with that caveat

for example I can't wait for him to analyze Quinnipiac Polls (rated highly in this report) this election cycle which appear to be wildly outside the general range of polling. Fox as usual is another that appears to simply be polling another electorate than 98% of other polls.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. SurveyUSA is really strong

Google SureveyUSA accuracy

[MaggieD]

6. I love that 538 publishes this data

And I do take it into account when I see polling.