Document Type
Report
Publication Date
10-2015
Abstract
The University of New Orleans Survey Research Center, in association with the software company Lucid, has released the results of a statewide opt-in Internet poll that gauges voter preferences in Saturday’s primary election for governor of Louisiana. The poll surveyed 623 registered voters from Oct. 14-19, 2015.
The poll shows that Republican David Vitter has a slight lead over Democratic candidate John Bel Edwards. Two other Republicans, Jay Dardenne and Scott Angelle, lag behind the top two candidates by double-digits.
Recommended Citation
Chervenak, Edward E. and Survey Research Center, University of New Orleans, "2015 Louisiana Governor Election Poll" (2015). Survey Research Center Publications. Paper 37.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/src_pubs/37
Comments
As telephone-based political polls become more challenging to conduct and their accuracy has come into question, researchers are beginning to experiment with new non-probability sampling methodologies and weighting data to be representative of the population of interest, according to Ed Chervenak, director of the UNO Survey Research Center.
Opt-in Internet polls come with some caveats, including demographic differences in Internet access and usage with respect to age, and the fact that respondents are not selected through a random sampling procedure. In spite of these concerns, the results are aligned with what has been found in other traditional statewide polls.