Public polling industry

"What these polls have in common is that they reveal "findings" that their sponsors wish the public to believe as facts." --Chris Mooney, "John Zogby's Creative Polls," The American Prospect vol. 14 no. 1, February 1, 2003

SourceWatch resources

 * U.S. presidential election, 2004: Wedge Issues
 * Exit polls

Public polling industry
The following is a list of entities involved in the public polling industry.
 * American Association of Public Opinion Research
 * Democracy Corps
 * ecoAmerica
 * MoveOn
 * National Council on Public Polls

Political pollsters

 * See DC Political Report.com for web links:
 * American Research Group
 * American Viewpoint (R)
 * Ayres McHenry & Associates (R)
 * Badger Poll
 * Charleton Research Company/Charlton Research
 * CNN's Allpolitics Poll Archives/CNN Inside Politics
 * Crosby/Textor
 * Darren Morris & Associates
 * Dresner Wickers
 * Elections USA
 * Fabrizio McLaughlin & Associates/FabMac.com
 * Fako & Associates/FakoAssociates.com (D)
 * Fenn & King Communciation (D)
 * Field Poll
 * Florida Voter
 * The Gallup Poll/Gallup.com
 * Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group (D)
 * Gonzales/Arscott
 * Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (D)/Stanley Greenberg
 * Harstad Strategic (D)
 * Harris Poll
 * Hill Research Consultants (R)
 * Keystone Poll
 * Lake Snell Perry & Associates, Inc.
 * Marist College Poll
 * Market Decisions
 * Market Strategies (R)
 * Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc.
 * McAuliffe Message Media (R)
 * McLaughlin and Associates (R)
 * The Mellman Group
 * Mitchell Research
 * Moore Information
 * Ivan Moore Research (D)
 * National Opinion Research Center/National Opinion Research Center
 * The New York Times/CBS News Poll/New York Times-CBS News Poll
 * Opinion Dynamics Corporation
 * Penn, Schoen & Berland
 * Pew Research Center for the People and the Press/Pew Research Center
 * Polling Report, Inc./PollingReport.com
 * Portrait of America
 * Probolsky Research (R)
 * Program on International Policy Attitudes which does WorldPublicOpinion polls
 * Public Opinion Strategies (R)
 * Public Policy Institute
 * Princetown Survey Research
 * Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
 * RKM Research
 * R.T. Nielson Co.
 * Rasmussen Research
 * Sander-Innocenzi (R)
 * Siena Research Institute
 * Strother Duffy Strother (D)
 * Southern Media & Opinion Research
 * Southern Research Group
 * Survey USA
 * The Tarrance Group
 * USA Polling Group
 * Voter Consumer Research (R)
 * Ward Research
 * Washington Post Polls/Washington Post Polls
 * Wilson Research Strategies
 * Wirthlin Worldwide (R)
 * Yale Unversity
 * Zogby International/Zogby.com

External Sources
Books
 * Steven F. Freeman and Joel Bleifuss, Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count(New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006)
 * Kenneth F. Warren, In Defense of Public Opinion Polling (Boulder, CO; Westview Press, 2003)

Academic Journals
 * Public Opinion Quarterly