<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - polling</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/polling</link><description>Newsvine - polling</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:33:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 13:16:19 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Polls giving partisans lots of room to argue</title>
<description><![CDATA[Don't like the latest poll numbers on the presidential race? Just wait. More are coming &#8212; probably before you can say "margin of sampling error."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Agiesta ]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jennifer Agiesta ]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/01/14846982-polls-giving-partisans-lots-of-room-to-argue</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/01/14846982-polls-giving-partisans-lots-of-room-to-argue</guid><category>us</category><category>campaign</category><category>politics</category><category>presidential</category><category>presidential-campaign</category><category>polling</category><pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2012 07:06:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>1 dead in Libya voting violence</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/07/12617606-1-dead-in-libya-voting-violence</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/07/12617606-1-dead-in-libya-voting-violence</guid><category>libya</category><category>poll</category><category>free</category><category>ballot</category><category>protester</category><category>polling</category><category>steal</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>ajdabiya</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 Jul 2012 19:18:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120707-libya-protest-vote-1130a.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="258" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120707-libya-protest-vote-1130a.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Libya anti-election protester was shot dead Saturday in Ajdabiya when he tried to steal a ballot box from a polling station during the nation’s first free national poll in 60 years.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Fraud, vote-buying? Mexico recounts ballots for president</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/05/12570505-fraud-vote-buying-mexico-recounts-ballots-for-president</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/05/12570505-fraud-vote-buying-mexico-recounts-ballots-for-president</guid><category>elections</category><category>election</category><category>fraud</category><category>races</category><category>recount</category><category>requests</category><category>polling</category><category>booths</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Thu, 5 Jul 2012 04:55:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-cvr-120704-ballots-933p.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-cvr-120704-ballots-933p.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mexico's next president denied that his party had been involved in coercion during his campaign, in the wake of allegations that Sunday's elections were &quot;perhaps the biggest operation of vote-buying and coercion in the country's history.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Campaign worker shot outside Texas polling station</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/29/11941973-campaign-worker-shot-outside-texas-polling-station</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/29/11941973-campaign-worker-shot-outside-texas-polling-station</guid><category>texas</category><category>leg</category><category>news</category><category>nbc</category><category>nbc-news</category><category>polling</category><category>juan</category><category>constable</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 20:34:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Voter fraud video aimed at Holder's position</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/09/11103870-voter-fraud-video-aimed-at-holders-position</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/09/11103870-voter-fraud-video-aimed-at-holders-position</guid><category>washington</category><category>video</category><category>polling</category><category>holder</category><category>o'keefe</category><category>eric-holder</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>james-okeefe</category><pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 19:59:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>How conservatives lost faith in science</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/29/10915549-how-conservatives-lost-faith-in-science</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/29/10915549-how-conservatives-lost-faith-in-science</guid><category>science</category><category>alan</category><category>polling</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>boyle's</category><category>alan-boyles</category><category>distrustful</category><category>altscience</category><category>years'</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:48:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120327-coslog-politicalbrain-315p.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="274" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120327-coslog-politicalbrain-315p.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: An analysis of 36 years' worth of polling data indicates that political conservatives have become increasingly distrustful of science. But why?&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Romney shows signs of strength as Republicans start to coalesce</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/20/10783148-romney-shows-signs-of-strength-as-republicans-start-to-coalesce</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/20/10783148-romney-shows-signs-of-strength-as-republicans-start-to-coalesce</guid><category>primaries</category><category>exit</category><category>obama</category><category>romney</category><category>polling</category><category>partys</category><category>caucuses</category><category>defeating</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:29:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Romney rebounds with Florida primary win</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/31/10282834-romney-rebounds-with-florida-primary-win</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/31/10282834-romney-rebounds-with-florida-primary-win</guid><category>race</category><category>florida</category><category>gop</category><category>turning</category><category>state's</category><category>republican</category><category>nomination</category><category>polling</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><pubDate>Wed, 1 Feb 2012 01:00:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Experts: Bias didn't skew NH polls against Clinton</title>
<description><![CDATA[Polling that ended too early and other technical shortcomings &#8212; rather than undetected racial bias &#8212; are the likeliest reasons so many surveys incorrectly suggested Barack Obama would defeat Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 New Hampshire presidential primary, a report concluded Monday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Fram]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alan Fram]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/30/2619080-experts-bias-didnt-skew-nh-polls-against-clinton</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/30/2619080-experts-bias-didnt-skew-nh-polls-against-clinton</guid><category>politics</category><category>presidential</category><category>wrong</category><category>hillary-rodham-clinton</category><category>new-hampshire</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>polling</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:48:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/f2722388-a107-4176-b21a-67d91bc6ee2b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="293" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/f2722388-a107-4176-b21a-67d91bc6ee2b.jpg" width="120" height="88" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, announces a new comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Friday, March 27, 2009, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington.(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>10 choke points for Election Day</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the year 2000, we suffered through Florida's hanging chads and lingering lawsuits. In 2004, we agonized over the long lines at polling places, plus Ohio's provisional ballots. On Election Day this year, what problems will emerge as the choke points for the voting process?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Boyle]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alan Boyle]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/31/2059471-10-choke-points-for-election-day</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/31/2059471-10-choke-points-for-election-day</guid><category>business</category><category>election</category><category>vote</category><category>voting</category><category>ballots</category><category>registration</category><category>polling</category><category>provisional</category><category>decision-08</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>on-election-day</category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:32:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo/_new/081030-votingProblems-hLarge-832p.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="216" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo/_new/081030-votingProblems-hLarge-832p.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="65" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Voters line up beside empty voting booths inside the Acres Homes Mulit-Service Center to cast their votes on the first day of early voting Monday, Oct. 20, 2008, in Houston. Due to a glitch in the electronic voting system, voters waited in long lines to be checked in manually. Many voters left the polling place due to the problem. (AP Photo/The Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Questions and answers for polling skeptics</title>
<description><![CDATA[Why should I believe your poll?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Fram]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alan Fram]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/30/1705809-questions-and-answers-for-polling-skeptics</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/30/1705809-questions-and-answers-for-polling-skeptics</guid><category>for</category><category>politics</category><category>qa</category><category>polling</category><category>skeptics</category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:05:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Utah Ruffled by Logos on Poll Workers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Facing a constant poll worker shortage like many of her fellow elections officials, Sherrie Swensen came up with what she considered a creative answer: Ask corporations and civic groups to volunteer staff in exchange for a little publicity at the precinct.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brock Vergakis]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Brock Vergakis]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/17/1235179-utah-ruffled-by-logos-on-poll-workers</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/17/1235179-utah-ruffled-by-logos-on-poll-workers</guid><category>us-news</category><category>sponsors</category><category>polling</category><category>sherrie-swensen</category><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:05:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Of what use are opinion polls?</title>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - After the failure of opinion polls in New Hampshire to anticipate Sen. Hillary Clinton’s triumph, people are taking a second look at why we pay so much attention to polls. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Curry]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Tom Curry]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/16/1234908-of-what-use-are-opinion-polls</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/16/1234908-of-what-use-are-opinion-polls</guid><category>poll</category><category>election</category><category>clinton</category><category>exit</category><category>new-hampshire</category><category>obama</category><category>voters</category><category>polls</category><category>polling</category><category>decision-08</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:42:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/ArtAndPhoto-Fronts/COVER/080116/g-080116-cvr-polling-4p[1].photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="280" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/ArtAndPhoto-Fronts/COVER/080116/g-080116-cvr-polling-4p[1].120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Win McNamee / Getty Images file&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">nul</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Bah, Humbug: Holiday Polling Woes</title>
<description><![CDATA[Santa Claus may be coming to town, but lots of people will be leaving or otherwise hard to reach in Iowa and New Hampshire. That makes for plenty of nervous pollsters preparing to take late soundings on the presidential race during the frenzied holiday period.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Fram]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alan Fram]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/14/1164147-bah-humbug-holiday-polling-woes</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/14/1164147-bah-humbug-holiday-polling-woes</guid><category>politics</category><category>holiday</category><category>nightmare</category><category>santa-claus</category><category>polling</category><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:14:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>N.H., Iowa Voters Get Anti-Romney Calls</title>
<description><![CDATA[Residents in New Hampshire and Iowa have received phone calls raising questions about Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, his Mormon faith and the Vietnam War-era military deferments he received while serving as a missionary in France.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Elliott]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Philip Elliott]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/15/1100414-nh-iowa-voters-get-anti-romney-calls</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/15/1100414-nh-iowa-voters-get-anti-romney-calls</guid><category>politics</category><category>new-hampshire</category><category>romney</category><category>polling</category><category>vietnam-war-era</category><category>push-polling</category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:20:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/845b341c-88b6-4c84-9421-805b49ce329b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="352" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/845b341c-88b6-4c84-9421-805b49ce329b.jpg" width="120" height="175" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney  speaks at a &quot;Town Hall&quot; meeting as the Republican presidential hopeful campaigns in Burbank, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007.  (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">nul</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Cell-Phone-Only Crowd May Alter Polling</title>
<description><![CDATA[Justin Globus is part of a fast-growing group &#8212; approaching one in 10 Americans &#8212; who have given up traditional telephones and depend only on their cell phones. That trend is making pollsters uneasy.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Lester]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Will Lester]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/15/197605-cell-phone-only-crowd-may-alter-polling</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/15/197605-cell-phone-only-crowd-may-alter-polling</guid><category>us-news</category><category>predicament</category><category>polling</category><category>justin-globus</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 19:41:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/32e96b87-da9b-44c8-a5c4-f9ef84761da7.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="208" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/32e96b87-da9b-44c8-a5c4-f9ef84761da7.jpg" width="120" height="295" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Graphic shows the percentage of U.S. households with only a wireless phone. (AP Graphic)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>