2 Nov 2024

The inexact science of polling

From Saturday Morning, 8:10 am on 2 November 2024
Dr. Don Levy, Director. Dr. Levy currently serves as the director of the Siena College Research Institute (SCRI). Siena’s polling focuses not only on statewide and local politics but also on economic and social issues important to all New Yorkers. 

Dr. Levy founded and served for two years as the Co-Director of the Institute for Social and Community Research (ISCR) at West Virginia Wesleyan College, and prior to that as Director of Research at the Center for Population Research (CPR) at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Levy holds a Ph.D., in Sociology from the University of Connecticut and a B.A. from Yale University.

Dr. Don Levy, Director of Siena College Research Institute, one of the most accurate pollsters in America. Photo: Siena College

Americans go to the polls on the 5th of November to pick Kamala Harris or Donald Trump as their next president.

In the lead up to the vote hundreds of thousands of phone calls are made by pollsters. It is an inexact science and yet the results can guide the party campaigners and potentially, voters too.

One of the most accurate polls in America comes out of Siena College in New York.

Director Don Levy shares his predictions for the upcoming election, and explains how the polls actually work.

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