Gallup poll
Measures public sentiment
A Gallup poll is a survey of public opinion conducted by the Gallup organization, founded by statistician George Gallup in the 1930s.
The name has become somewhat generic for any scientific opinion poll: The latest Gallup poll shows the president's approval rating at 45%.
Gallup polls use sampling methods to gauge attitudes on politics, social issues, and consumer behavior.
- respondentsThose who answer queries
- likely votersThose expected to vote
- registered votersPeople officially eligible to vote
- opinionSubjective personal belief
- interviewFormal questioning session
survey · approval rating · random sampling · sample size · questionnaire · sampling error · conducting · demographics · statistics · electorate · popular vote · trends · margin of error · voter turnout · battleground states · beliefs · statistical significance · focus groups
Gallup pollanecdotal evidence
Support from individual accounts
gut feeling · intuition · speculation · guesswork · conjecture
Gallup pollpush poll
Loaded questions posing as polling
propaganda · manufactured consent · astroturfing · disinformation