{"id":11792,"date":"2019-02-28T13:29:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11792"},"modified":"2019-02-28T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T17:29:38","slug":"pew-phone-polling-in-crisis-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/pew-phone-polling-in-crisis-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew: Phone polling in crisis again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/unnamed-file-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/unnamed-file-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/unnamed-file-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/unnamed-file-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/unnamed-file.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> Most of the major media polls \u2014 the ABC News\/Washington Post, NBC  News\/Wall Street Journal, Fox News, CNN, CBS News \u2014 are conducted using a  traditional phone methodology. | Pau Barrena\/AFP\/Getty Images <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Politico,<\/strong> by  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/staff\/steven-shepard\">STEVEN SHEPARD<\/a> February 27, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The percentage of Americans willing to participate in telephone polls  has hit a new low, according to a new report, raising doubts about the  continued viability of the phone surveys that have traditionally  dominated politics and elections, both in the media and in campaigns.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Pew Research Center <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2019\/02\/27\/response-rates-in-telephone-surveys-have-resumed-their-decline\" target=\"_blank\"><em>reported<\/em><\/a><em>  Wednesday that the response rate for its phone polls last year fell to  just 6 percent \u2014 meaning pollsters could only complete interviews with 6  percent of the households in their samples. It continues the long-term  decline in response rates, which had <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/05\/15\/pollsters-phone-polls-238409\" target=\"_blank\"><em>leveled off<\/em><\/a><em> earlier this decade.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/02\/27\/phone-polling-crisis-1191637\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/02\/27\/phone-polling-crisis-1191637<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico, by STEVEN SHEPARD February 27, 2019 Excerpt: The percentage of Americans willing to participate in telephone polls has hit a new low, according to a new report, raising doubts about the continued viability of the phone surveys that have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/pew-phone-polling-in-crisis-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11794,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792\/revisions\/11794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}