Mark Blumenthal

In describing the poll to The Atlantic, SurveyMonkey's head of election polling Mark Blumenthal, broke down the results down by race, gender educational attainment and age. When it came to black voters, the poll showed 23 percent of black men approved of Trump's work while just 11 percent of black ...

At my request, Mark Blumenthal, SurveyMonkey's head of election polling, calculated Trump's average approval rating over the last year among groups of voters ... “It's not like voters are saying, 'We are willing to overlook how … out of control he is because the economy is doing well,'” the pollster said.

Mark Blumenthal, the head of election polling with SurveyMonkey, agreed that the industry has taken the educational weighting issue seriously. He said that his company is digging ... "If you see a poll from a pollster you've never heard of, be skeptical," Walter said. • Consider various scenarios for voter ...

Jones won in part by turning out “people who have never come out in a midterm or special election,” John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster based in ... benefit the Democrats more than usual,” according to a blog post by Mark Blumenthal, the online firm's head of election polling and a former HuffPost editor.

“That should have been the lesson we learned from 2016,” said Mark Blumenthal, the head of election polling at SurveyMonkey, which published results of a poll last week broken out according to 10 possible turnout models. “We should not be getting into the minutiae of what fraction of a percent the lead is ...

Four polls have shown Roy Moore leading by between 4 and 9 points. One new one, from Fox News, shows Democrat Doug Jones with a 10-point lead. And another, from SurveyMonkey, just posts a range of possibilities, arguing that results will largely depend on how a pollster chooses to model turnout.

That pattern is evident when comparing our trend lines for Trump's approval and disapproval since February to the multi-poll, aggregated trend lines produced by HuffPost Pollster and FiveThirtyEight. The lines are very close and reveal the same movement over time, but SurveyMonkey's line is typically a ...

The Conservatives received 42.4 percent of the vote, a near match to the 42 percent forecast by our tracking poll in the final week of the campaign. Labour received 40 percent of the vote, just two points higher than our final forecast of 38 percent. The unmatched accuracy of our final estimate came, in part, ...

Trump's average approval among Democrats, according to HuffPost Pollster? Only 10 percent. “It is remarkable,” said Mark Blumenthal, the head of election polling at SurveyMonkey. SurveyMonkey's latest poll gave Trump an 89-percent approval rating among Republicans — the highest of all major polls ...

Methodology: This SurveyMonkey Tracking poll was conducted online January 15-22, 2017 among a national sample of 6,958 adults ages 18 and up. Respondents for this survey were selected from the nearly 3 million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day. Data for this week ...

This is a time when polls dominate the media and the accuracy of polls can be confirmed or refuted by the actual poll vote outcome. ... Josh Clinton (Vanderbilt University), Mark Blumenthal (SurveyMonkey), Chris Wlezien (University of Texas), Kyley McGeeney (Pew Research Center), Evans Witt (PSRAI ...

Mark Blumenthal, who for the past decade has been the leading journalist covering the political polling industry, is leaving his post as senior editor of The ... He was also a columnist for National Journal from 2008 to 2010, until The Huffington Post acquired Pollster and rebranded it as HuffPost Pollster.