We’ve been analyzing presidential primary exit polls for ABC News in this political season, with ongoing election night live feeds and wrap-ups. See our final analysis Super Tuesday exit polls here and live coverage of the Democratic and Republican races here and here; our output on the South Carolina Democratic primary here and on the Nevada Republican caucuses here; our reporting on the Nevada Democratic caucuses and South Carolina Republican primary here, with live feeds from each here (NV-D) and here (SC-R) (and a follow-up report here); our New Hampshire coverage here and Iowa here. Individual reports have received as many as 4,000 shares on ABCNews.com.
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We’re delighted to announce two staff changes at Langer Research Associates: the promotion of Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Ph.D., to the position of senior research analyst, and the addition of Sofi Sinozich to our staff as research associate.
An expert in statistical analysis, political and international research and survey methodology, Kiewiet de Jonge has taken a leading role in many of our recent projects, including work on consumer insights, health care and our coverage of public policy and election politics. In addition to his promotion at Langer Research, he recently was named an affiliated professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City, where he worked as an assistant professor of political science before joining us last summer.
Sinozich will graduate this spring from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and statistics. She has interned with us since September, with previous internships at the Pew Research Center last summer and the Bureau of Justice Statistics in summer 2014. In her time with us, Sinozich has produced detailed pre-field research, contributed to our analysis of consumer sentiment and exit polls, meticulously updated our data resources and contributed to questionnaire design.
Thanks and congratulations to Chad and Sofi alike!
Our most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll on the 2016 election has received wide pickup beyond ABC and the Post. Our analysis of the Republican contest has received 5,000 shares and more than 1,100 comments on ABCNews.com and coverage by Time, Politico, Fox News, The New York Post, the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Hill and Business Insider, a syndicator. Our piece on the Democratic race, with 3,000 shares and more than 500 comments on ABCNews.com, has been picked up by Politico, the International Business Times, TPM and columnist Charles Blow in The New York Times. And our coverage of expectations for the general election in November has more than 15,000 shares and 4,500 comments on ABCNews.com.
Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll on the leading presidential candidates’ popularity received 3,000 shares and more than 2,300 comments on ABCNews.com, as well as pickup in Politico and in a piece by the columnist George Will that appeared in newspapers across the country, from the Bowling Green Daily News to the Montana Standard, the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Daily News of Faribault, in the beautiful Lake Country of Southern Minnesota.
Our newest ABC News/Washington Post poll continues our coverage of the 2016 election as well as examining opinions on domestic terrorism and gun rights in the wake of the San Bernadino attacks. Our most-followed story focused on Americans’ recent souring on assault weapons bans, with over 55,000 shares on ABCNews.com, nearly 1,000 comments and coverage in Breitbart, Politico, CNN, Slate, National Reviewand the Huffington Post, as well as of course, the Washington Post. Other pieces from the poll also received wide pickup, by organizations includingCBS, the New Yorker, Salon and the Boston Globe.
Gary Langer addressed the annual conference of the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, summarizing four years of statewide surveys for Blue Shield of California Foundation on the healthcare experiences of low-income Californians. The presentationfocused of data-driven strategies for safety net clinics to foster patient engagement, satisfaction and loyalty though key elements of primary care redesign, including connectedness, continuity, communication and engagement strategies to enhance patient-provider relationships.
Our most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll looks at views on terrorism after the Paris attacks, the 2016 election and other current issues. It’s received pickup beyond ABC and the Post in Politico (here, here and here), CNN, The Hill (here and here), the National Journal, MSNBC, the Boston Globe, Time, the IBTimes (here and here) and Xinhuanet, among others. See our reports here.
The international development nonprofit Counterpart International has published a detailed impact assessment of the Bangladesh Leadership Development Program, a civic engagement program implemented by Counterpart and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The 155-page study, designed and produced by Langer Research Associates, compares pre- and post-training surveys of participants’ civic values, tolerance, democratic orientation, knowledge, efficacy and engagement. Based on in-person interviews with 3,500 LDP participants, it builds on a first-wave baseline study in 2013, using Cohen’s d to measure the effect sizes of observed differences between the two samples.
The assessment finds that the LDP produced significant, positive advances in trainees’ political and community engagement and commitment to community development. Participants emerged from their training with a greater understanding of democracy and community development issues, broader belief in their own ability to effect change, enhanced acceptance of others and more extensive involvement in community activities.
Areas for additional focus were identified, offering useful lessons for future community leadership training. Gains were limited among those who had prior training, more education or higher initial civic awareness, suggesting that such participants would benefit from an enhanced training curriculum or mentoring roles. Results indicated a need to offer particular support to those with more difficult living conditions. And close monitoring and oversight of the performance of implementing partners is warranted.
Survey field work and data processing were directed by D3 Systems, Inc., of Vienna, Va., and carried out by Org-Quest Research Ltd. of Dhaka, Bangladesh. See the full report here.
A new Fusion 2016 Issues Poll finds that one in four young adults is stressing over student loans, with a broad gender gap. Forty percent of the nation’s 18- to 35-year-olds have taken out a student loan, the national survey finds, with a current median balance of $18,000. Six in 10 call these loans a cause of stress – with women more apt than men both to have taken out student loans and to call them a source of stress in their lives. The national, random-sample survey is the second in a new series of polls of millennials produced for the network by Langer Research Associates. See Fusion’s report here.