Happy Holidays from Roper
The Roper Center wishes happy holidays to everyone in our community! Our staff will be enjoying Cornell's winter break from December 23 through January 2…
Presidential Transition in the Polls
The weeks between election and inauguration usually represent a honeymoon period in which the president-elect's decisions are given good reviews by the…
Understanding the 2016 Election Polls
After Trump’s stunning upset on Election Day, pollsters have been making their best efforts to understand just why the 2016 election polls missed the mark…
Polling and Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 shocked the U.S. and sent the country into war. At the time, public opinion polling was in its infancy, and…
New Data Provider: Public Opinion Programme at the University of Hong Kong (HKU POP)
The Public Opinion Programme at the University of Hong Kong (HKU POP) is now a Roper Center data provider.HKU POP has been conducting quality…
Immigration Data: America's Views of Immigration in 2015
Examine America's views on immigration in recent public opinion polls from ABC News/Washington Post, CBS News, and CNN/ORC. These three surveys contribute…
Roper at WAPOR Latin American Conference
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research was proud to be a sponsor and presenter at the seventhLatin American Conference of the World Association for…
2016 Election Recap
Did you know the first iPoll question about the 2016 election appeared in 2013? It's been a long road. Now that election day is in the past, a look back…
Vote Fraud
Donald Trump has claimed that illegal voting - including voting by non-citizens or people voting under assumed identities - was responsible for Hillary…
In Memoriam: Jim Davis
Jim Davis, giant in the field of survey research and winner of the 2010 Roper Center Mitofsky Award, died on September 29 after a brief illness. His…
Shutdown Showdown
Another budget negotiation, another government shutdown? Maybe. If an agreement cannot be reached that would provide aid to Flint, MI, Senate Democrats…
Presidential Approval: New tools
How does presidential approval in Barack Obama's second term compared to that of George W. Bush? How about to Harry Truman? With the Roper Center's newly…
Curbed Enthusiasm: Voting in 2016
Much has been made of the supposed disenchantment of voters in the current election. In the most recent CBS News/NYT poll, only 36% of registered…
None of the Above: Polling and Third-Party Candidates
Another election, another chance for a third-party campaign to draw away voters from a major party candidate and effect the election outcome. Maybe.…
Event: 2016 Election Polling: A Postmortem
DC-AAPOR and the Roper Center present 2016 Election Polling: A Postmortem – Just What Do Voters Expect? Wednesday, November 16th, 3:00 to…
Roper Data at the Presidential Debates
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research has long served as a major resource for journalists covering presidential elections. This year, the Roper…
Candidates and Tax Returns
Donald Trump has refused to release his tax returns, a decision that Hillary Clinton has denounced with ads that imply these documents hide secrets that…
Poverty in America: AEI/LA Times Polls
In 1985, the late I. A. Lewis, director of the LA Times poll, and William Schneider produced a poll on attitudes toward poverty in America…
Mandating Better Work-Life Balance: FMLA and Public Opinion
This Labor Day, America's labor movement will point to many proud achievements: overtime pay, workplace safety regulations, and more than two decades of…
Live Long and Pollster: Star Trek and Public Opinion
Fifty years ago this September, Star Trek aired on NBC. The show went on to become a cultural icon, an American vision of a future that went…