: one that conducts a poll or compiles data obtained by a poll
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he wouldn't tell the exit pollster whom he'd voted for
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What To Know Almost every pollster now shows Trump's net approval rating in the negatives, meaning more people disapprove of his job performance than approve.
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Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
The poll was conducted earlier this month via text by David Wolfson, a national pollster and lecturer at Columbia University.
—Kate Wolffe, Sacramento Bee, 24 Mar. 2025
Lev Gudkov, of the Levada Center, Russia’s only independent pollster, says that Soviet authorities created a special sociological unit to study the effects of Western propaganda on the population.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
Several pollsters have recently added to our collection of polls on inequality.
—Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
The poll was conducted earlier this month via text by David Wolfson, a national pollster and lecturer at Columbia University.
—Kate Wolffe, Sacramento Bee, 24 Mar. 2025
Lev Gudkov, of the Levada Center, Russia’s only independent pollster, says that Soviet authorities created a special sociological unit to study the effects of Western propaganda on the population.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
Several pollsters have recently added to our collection of polls on inequality.
—Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Pollster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pollster. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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pollster
noun
poll·ster
ˈpōl-stər 
: one that conducts a poll or collects data obtained by a poll
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