How to Use pollster in a Sentence

pollster

noun

• Also, both of the pollsters cited above have whiffed in past races.
  — Philip Klein, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• Then the pollster asked an open-ended question of the rest: If not Trump, then who?
  — Aaron Blake, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2022
• Were the Dolphins running it up to impress the AP pollsters?
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• Since 1996, Penn was the longtime pollster to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• Bookies and pollsters rank Mr. Sunak as a long shot to stay in power.
  — Jill Lawless and Brian Melley, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
• In need of a shot of momentum, Bass’ campaign team had their pollster, David Binder, write a memo about the state of the race.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Still, Franklin, the Marquette pollster, noted the influence of the top of the ticket.
  — Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2024
• But the takeaway for Ragnar’s pollster, Chris Perkins, is clear.
  — Marc Caputo, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2022
• Klain told the pollster that the White House was aware of it and had been taking it seriously for months.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2021
• And for even more, see this presentation from the pollsters who conduct the NBC News poll.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 16 June 2023
• The share of Americans who believe the lab theory has held steady since June 2021, the pollster said.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• Indeed, in the run-up to this shutdown, pollsters have seemed less interested in the topic than in the past.
  — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
• There is a sense that Trump has momentum, but pollster John Zogby warned not to bank on that.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Oct. 2024
• His wildly out-of-the-mainstream call is sure to shock pollsters, pundits and Fortune‘s readers alike.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
• So, there's plenty of reason to be skeptical of the pollster.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
• Owens, the pollster, said such talk resonates with the 33% of the electorate that does not identify as a partisan.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2021
• One way to do this is to see how close a pollster's final surveys are to the election results like FiveThirtyEight does.
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 5 Sep. 2021
• When pollsters asked who would do better in specific areas, the gaps were stark.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Cruz's pollster, Chris Wilson, is also joining the group.
  — Scott Wong, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
• If Democrats are suddenly excited to talk to pollsters, that could shift the margins.
  — Jay Cost, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
• French pollsters misjudged the resistance to the far right in the last election, too — but in the opposite direction.
  — Scott Clement, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• The French pollster Odoxa found in November that opposition among Parisians had risen to 44%, up from 22% two years ago.
  — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
• The same pollster once urged voters not to overlook Nikki Fried, who lost by a landslide to Crist in the August primary.
  — Brian Flood, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2022
• Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s pollster-turned-White House counselor, has also pitched in.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
• By last June, three months into the virus outbreak, the same pollster found that 62 percent of the state’s voters approved of her performance.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2021
• Afterward, pollsters examined what went wrong and set out to fix it.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
• Yet, the results have shocked most pollsters and Modi supporters—and indeed, the country.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 5 June 2024
• But the zeal dampens when the pollsters ask more detailed questions about the people's willingness to make lifestyle changes or spend a lot of money.
  — Anthony Faiola, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
• Other pollsters who released results this week found a closer race within the margins of error of their surveys.
  — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
• Trump’s strength with young male voters has been a recurring narrative in the campaign’s final months, though pollsters caution that some of these supporters might not turn out for the former president.
  — Yash Roy, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024