Polling

KnowInk founder Scott Leiendecker shares how he developed the Poll Pad and how his voter registration company is becoming one of the fastest-growing companies in the region.

In the month leading up to Election Day, most public opinion polls showed former Vice President Joe Biden leading by a sizable margin, yet his margin of victory was much closer than many pollsters predicted. As Washington University professor Liberty Vittert writes in a recent editorial, “How were all the pollsters so wrong, again, even after the soul searching and methodological recalibrating that followed 2016?”

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 2, 2013 - As Nate Silver reflects on the 2012 polling analysis that has made him a superstar…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 8, 2009 - Missourians appear to be fine with President Barack Obama addressing school children…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: October 8, 2008 - Throughout the summer and early fall, as polling groups released new data and news…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: September 23, 2008 - The Pew Research Center has been the go-to source for empirical support that,…