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Quinnipiac University Poll
FounderPaul Falcigno
Headquarters60 Westwoods Road
Hamden, Connecticut
Director
Doug Schwartz
AffiliationsQuinnipiac University
Staff
300[1]
Websitepoll.qu.edu

The Quinnipiac University Poll is a

public opinion polling center based at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. It surveys public opinion in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and nationally.[2][3] The poll is unaffiliated with any academic department at the school and is run by Quinnipiac's public relations department.[4]

Academic-affiliated polls like Quinnipiac have grown in significance as media budgets have declined, and in 2018 Politico called the Quinnipiac poll "the most significant player among a number of schools that have established a national polling footprint."[4]

It is considerably larger than other academic polling centers, including the

communications, psychology, and sociology majors, and the remainder of interviewers from those not affiliated with the university.[1] The poll has a full-time staff of ten.[1] The university does not disclose Quinnipiac University Poll's operating budget, and the poll does not accept clients or outside funding.[1]

History

In 2007, Quinnipiac University Poll underwent construction of a new two-story building that was expected to double its available capacity to 160 calling cubicles.

2006 Connecticut Senate election where other polls were canceled to support that poll.[1]

The polling operation began informally in 1988 in conjunction with a marketing class.[5] It became formal in 1996 when the university hired a CBS News analyst to assess the data being gained.[5] It subsequently focused on the Northeastern states, gradually expanding during presidential elections to cover swing states as well.[5] The institute is funded by the university.[5] Quinnipiac University is widely known for its poll;[6] the publicity it has generated has been credited with increasing the university's enrollment.[1]

The poll has been cited by major news outlets throughout North America and Europe, including

2010 midterm Senate elections and concluded that Quinnipiac was the most accurate, with a mean error of 2.0 percent.[13][14]

Politico reported in 2018 that "much of Quinnipiac’s prominence in the field is also a result of its commitment to self-promotion." The publication pointed out that the poll "reports to the university’s public-affairs office, not any academic wing of the school," and that for many years the poll employed New York publicist Howard Rubenstein and prominent journalists to promote the poll.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^
    Patriot-News. Archived
    from the original on October 1, 2011.
  2. ^ "Quinnipiac University/Poll: Contacts and Information". quinnipiac.edu. Quinnipiac University.
  3. ^ a b Silver, Nate (2021-03-25). "Pollster Ratings - Quinnipiac University". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  4. ^ a b c Shepard, Steven (2018-12-12). "The Poll That Built a University". POLITICO Magazine. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  5. ^ a b c d e Lapidos, Juliet (October 16, 2008). "What's With All the "Quinnipiac University" Polls? How an obscure school in Connecticut turned into a major opinion research center". Slate.
  6. ^ Weinreb, Michael (December 26, 2007). "New Quinnipiac Coach Is Expected to Build a Winner". The New York Times. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
  7. Washington Post
    .
  8. Fox News Channel
    . August 17, 2006.
  9. ^ "Quinnipiac Poll: Giuliani still leads GOP hopefuls, but by much less". USA Today. May 21, 2010. Archived from the original on June 25, 2007. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  10. New York Times
    .
  11. ^ Boyette, Chris. "Poll: Majority of New Yorkers approve of NYPD surveillance of Muslims". CNN.
  12. ^ Sullivan, Andy (Jun 26, 2008). "Obama leads in four battleground states: poll". Reuters.
  13. ^ Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (November 9, 2010). "Analysis of the Pollsters". Electoral-vote.com. Retrieved 2011-01-24.
  14. ^ "Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly". fivethirtyeight.com. 5 November 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2017.

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