Our newest ABC News/Washington Post poll, covering the 2016 election, guns and terrorism issues and the threat of the Zika virus, has received significant attention from the public as well as wide pickup in the press. In particular, our latest analysis of the general election horserace, finding a 12-point lead for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, garnered over 12,000 shares and 6,000 comments on ABCNews.com. Other press coverage included The New York Times, CNN, Fox News, Politico, USA Today,Bloomberg, PBS NewsHour, the Huffington Post, MSNBC, The Hill, Fortune, New York Magazine, the Boston Herald, Salon, Slate, Quartz, Voice of America, the Hindustan Times, the Times of India, The Straits Times (Singapore) and the NM Political Report (New Mexico), among many others.

Our most recent favorability poll for ABC News/Washington Post – finding near-record high unfavorable ratings for both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton – was covered widely by a variety of outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Politico, NBC, NPR, the Huffington Post,Bloomberg, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, National Review, Slate, The Hill, the New York Review of Books, Salon, Al-Monitor, the Sioux City Journal, the Press-Enterprise of Southern California, the Columbia Daily Tribune (Missouri) and the Albany Herald (Georgia), in addition to ABCand the Post.

Public Opinion Quarterly, the top peer-reviewed journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, has published a new article by our Senior Research Analyst Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, “Should Researchers Abandon Questions about ‘Democracy’? Evidence from Latin America.” Available via advance access online, the article shows that standard questions on “democracy” lead Latin Americans to overstate their actual commitment to the concept by focusing on abstractions rather than practice. Nonetheless, Kiewiet de Jonge shows that these often-used “democracy” questions remain useful for understanding how individuals come to support democratic governments.

Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll on the 2016 presidential race has received wide coverage across the country and internationally. Beyond ABC and the Post, we’ve seen mention of the poll in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, onNational Public Radio, in Politico, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, People magazine, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Newsday, Bloomberg News,Fox News, CNBC, RushLimbaugh.com, Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Slate, The Hill, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Herald, The New York Post, theToledo Blade, Commentary magazine, the Independent (U.K.), the Daily Mail (U.K.), The Guardian (U.K.), the Japan Times, Canada Journal, theSydney Morning Herald, the Gulf News (U.A.E.), the Times of India, the Straits Times (Singapore), the Russian news outletRT.com, the Herald News (Zimbabwe) and scores of other outlets, including local TV and radio stations, newspapers and news websites.

The range of our work at Langer Research Associates was on display at the past week’s annual meetings of the American Association for Public Opinion Research and the World Association for Public Opinion Research in Austin, Texas, where we presented five papers and two posters and demonstrated PARC™, our knowledge management software application for survey research professionals.

Joined by our research partners at ESPN Consumer Insights, we presented “The New Living Room: How Americans View their Video,” an in-depth study of changing video consumption habits. In another joint presentation, with our colleagues at the National Sleep Foundation, we reported on the Foundation’s new Sleep Health Index, a robust and accessible tool for tracking the public’s sleep health.

We were joined by our partners at Counterpart International and D3 Systems Inc. in summarizing a detailed report on the effectiveness of a USAID-funded community development program in Bangladesh. And Gary Langer and Senior Research Analyst Chad Kiewiet de Jonge co-presented our analysis of the 2016 presidential election for ABC News, including a summary of Republican and Democratic primary exit poll results and our evaluation of the attitudinal roots of support for Donald Trump.

We presented an evaluation of public attitudes on climate change and their potential role in the 2016 election. Research Analyst Margaret Tyson contributed a poster on our test of the accuracy of gender coding by telephone interviewers. And we presented a poster describing PARC, the Polling Archive, our cloud-based software application that seamlessly stores, searches and retrieves essential survey materials.

A record of nearly 1,200 researchers attended this year’s AAPOR conference, held jointly this year with WAPOR. We were honored to participate, to learn from our colleagues and to share these examples of our own work.

We’re excited to announce the formal launch of PARC, the Polling Archive – a comprehensive knowledge management software application for survey research practitioners.

PARC™ offers data archive and retrieval capabilities specifically designed for the effective management of survey projects, with full-text word search of individual survey questions (with trended results), programmed questionnaires and analyses. Search results are single-click linked to datasets, banner books, file memos and any other project files.

Question-level results are easily combined and exported to create new trend documents or programmed questionnaires with the assurance of consistent wording, structure, instructions and coding over time. PARC’s full-text search capability also is effective in managing qualitative analyses, transcripts and other documents.

PARC is hosted on the secure Microsoft Azure cloud platform with DigiCert SSL encryption. Individual users have access only to their own files. Internal and public-facing versions are available, as are internal server-based solutions.

     PARC: Better. Faster. Results.

• Thorough: Find the results of every survey question you’ve ever asked, any project, any time.
• Consistent: Ensure consistency for trend questions – know you’re asking the exact same question with the same options and instructions instead of relying on group memory.
• Fast: Save time by finding results and questionnaire wording with a click of a button, instead of digging through files and folders.
• Accurate: Quickly construct programmed questionnaires with complete, correct programmer instructions and notes.

Click here for a 5-minute video introduction to PARC, and contact info@langerresearch.com for details or a free trial account.

Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll analysis takes a close look at Donald Trump’s favorability ratings overall and across groups, with comparisons to previous presidential candidates in ABC/Post polls back to 1984. We’ve seen pickup in Politico and the Chicago Tribune, among others.

We’ve covered the 2016 presidential primary exit polls in-depth for ABC News. See our full- season wrap-up here, our analysis of the May 3 Indiana primaries here, the April 26 “I-95” primaries here, the April 19 New York primaries here, the April 5 Wisconsin primaries here, the March 15 Junior Tuesday primaries here and the March 15 contests in Michigan and Mississippi here. (Check the 3/2/16 entry for previous exit poll analyses this year.)

Donald Trump scares millennial women, nearly half are uninspired by their choices for president – and when it comes to dinner with one of the candidates, four in 10 are already booked.

A remarkable 63 percent of women age 18 to 35 in an ABC News/Refinery29 poll say Trump scares them. Nearly half, 47 percent, don’t find any of the presidential candidates inspiring – including the one seeking to become the first female president. And when asked if there are any with whom they’d like to have dinner, another plurality, 39 percent, turns down the offer.

One reason: Half of these women say the candidates are not really discussing issues important to them, a major turn-off in terms of interest, voting intention and dinner arrangements alike. Young black women, in particular, say the campaign has failed to address the issues they care about most.

The national survey, produced for ABC News and Refinery29 by Langer Research Associates, covers a range of political and social concerns, from election issues to views on bias against women to student loan debt.

See Refinery29’s gorgeous coverage here, ABC News’ here and our source report here.

Young adults in a new Fusion 2016 Issues poll tilt slightly in favor of a federal apology for slavery but broadly oppose monetary reparations for past racial discrimination. Most also think people judge Barack Obama more harshly because he’s black – and more pick Bernie Sanders than Hillary Clinton as likeliest to appoint minorities to positions of power.

Fusion’s latest random-sample national telephone survey of 1,045 18- to 35-year-olds, focused on racial issues, finds differences within racial and ethnic groups in most of these views, marking the extent to which such divisions extend to the younger generation of American adults.

The survey is the latest in a series of polls of millennials produced for the network by Langer Research Associates. Focused on social and political issues of concern to the millennial generation, Fusion’s 2016 Issues Poll will be an ongoing fixture in the election year ahead.

See Fusion’s report here and our source analysis here.