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| Founder | Paul Falcigno |
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| Headquarters | 60 Westwoods Road Hamden, Connecticut, U.S. |
Director | Doug Schwartz |
| Affiliations | Quinnipiac University |
Staff | 300[1] |
| Website | poll |
The Quinnipiac University Poll is a public opinion polling center based at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. It surveys public opinion in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and nationally.[2][3] The poll is unaffiliated with any academic department at the school and is run by Quinnipiac's public relations department.[4]
Academic-affiliated polls like Quinnipiac have grown in significance as media budgets have declined, and in 2017 Politico called the Quinnipiac poll "the most significant player among a number of schools that have established a national polling footprint."[4]
It is considerably larger than other academic polling centers, including the Franklin & Marshall College Poll, which only surveys Pennsylvania.[1] The organization employs about 300 interviewers, generally drawing about a quarter of its employees from political science, communications, psychology, and sociology majors, and the remainder of interviewers from those not affiliated with the university.[1] The poll has a full-time staff of ten.[1] The university does not disclose Quinnipiac University Poll's operating budget, and the poll does not accept clients or outside funding.[1]
- ^ a b c d e Lieberman, Brett (April 9, 2007). "Behind the scenes at the Q-Poll". Patriot-News. Archived from the original on October 1, 2011.
- ^ "Quinnipiac University/Poll: Polls". quinnipiac.edu. Quinnipiac University.
- ^ Silver, Nate (2021-03-25). "Pollster Ratings - Quinnipiac University". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ a b Shepard, Steven (2017-12-12). "The Poll That Built a University". POLITICO Magazine. Retrieved 2022-06-01.