as in interviewer
a person who goes around and approaches people with a request for opinions or information
he wouldn't tell the exit pollster whom he'd voted for
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Recent Examples of pollster
Siena pollsters did not ask New Yorkers their opinion on Trump’s move to end the toll.
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Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025
In comparison, only 8 percent of Americans sided with the Palestinians when the pollster first asked the question in December 2017, and only 15 percent did just before Trump’s inauguration in late January.
—Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 Feb. 2025
Other pollsters have made the effort, and quite a few have conducted surveys in Ukraine during the war.
—Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
But as pollsters get more specific, net approval of those policies tends to fall and go underwater.
—G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025
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Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025
In comparison, only 8 percent of Americans sided with the Palestinians when the pollster first asked the question in December 2017, and only 15 percent did just before Trump’s inauguration in late January.
—Monica Potts, ABC News, 19 Feb. 2025
Other pollsters have made the effort, and quite a few have conducted surveys in Ukraine during the war.
—Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
But as pollsters get more specific, net approval of those policies tends to fall and go underwater.
—G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Pollster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pollster. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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