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Roll call – 2 new polls tell different stories in open Michigan seat

by Simone Pathe – Polling conducted for the GOP nominee, businesswoman Lena Epstein, and the National Republican Congressional Committee showed a neck-and-neck race.        Two new partisan polls of the open-seat race in Michigan’s 11th District, where Republican Rep. Dave Trott is not seeking re-election, tell slightly different stories about the contest.  Polling conducted for the…

Laurinburg Exchange – State voters still closely split

by John Hood – In North Carolina, political power is divided… Do you find divided government frustrating or exhilarating? Either way, you might as well get used to it. North Carolina is likely to be a political battleground for many years to come… The Civitas Institute’s last two monthly surveys of North Carolina voters, conducted in…

Roll call – Pollsters prep for more ‘whack-a-mole’ with 2016 in rearview

by Bridget Bowman – As pollsters look ahead to the 2020 election, Brock McCleary comments on the state of polling, noting, “The biggest misconception is that the industry is in crisis.”Pollsters gearing up for the 2020 presidential election have an additional task to contend with: convincing a skeptical public that their work is still reliable. Despite new…