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Good Authority

Democrats bet big on abortion in 2024. Voters had other priorities.

Using data from the Cooperative Election Study, Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner and fourth-year A&S student Caroline Soler examine how support for abortion rights in the 2024 election did not translate into a Kamala Harris victory.

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TIME

How to Understand the Polls You’re Seeing Right Now

A Good Authority article by Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner and fourth-year A&S student Caroline Soler discussing how political pollsters have implemented methodological changes to surveys in hopes of improving accuracy of 2024 election polls is linked in this article.

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Caroline Soler’s Deep Dive Into Voter Data

The senior has been crunching the numbers as an analyst on a major election survey

Niskanen

Can we believe the polls?

Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner joins this The Science of Politics podcast episode to discuss his research and work managing the Cooperative Election Study.

The New York Sun

Largest Poll of the Election Cycle Finds Harris with a Majority of Support Nationwide as Tens of Millions Cast Early Ballots

The latest data from Tisch College's Cooperative Election Study, conducted by YouGov, of American voters ahead of the presidential election is discussed in this article.

NBC News

Nightly News Full Broadcast

Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner is quoted about how undecided voters turned out in the past two presidential elections.

PennLive

Meet 10 Pennsylvanians who could help decide the 2024 election

Data from the Cooperative Election Study on undecided voters who voted for Donald Trump in 2020 is cited in this article, which appears in six additional media outlets.

BBC

The truth behind Trump’s biggest illegal voter claim

Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner defends data from the Cooperative Election Study (of which he is co-principal investigator), which informed a 2014 article claiming that large populations of non-citizens voted in the 2008 and 2010 elections. Schaffner notes “it’s not possible to draw statistical conclusions from a relatively small number of survey participants.”

Two distinct red and blue ballot boxes, representing Democrats and Republicans, as two hands carefully insert their votes into the ballot boxes. Research from past elections show that they often don’t end up voting, and it’s unclear how undecided they really are

How Will Undecided Voters Affect the Presidential Election?

Past elections show that they often don’t end up voting, and it’s unclear how undecided they really are, say Tufts researchers