Current Events
Methods
California Love
I Love LA
100

A candidate that hosted a sweltering hot music event

Who is Trump?

100

We are not likely to hear detailed survey methodology from this group

What is the news media?

100

This US Senate Candidate is polling at just 33%

Who is Steve Garvey?

100

Leads the district attorney race by 24 percentage points (44 to 20%)

Who is Nathan Hochman?

200

A candidate drawing 80% of Black voters support, yet Biden had 90%.

Who is Harris?

200

Uses a systematic selection scheme, such as asking every other voter leaving a polling location

What is an exit poll?

200

This crime reform proposition is highly likely to pass since it's polling at 57% support

What is Prop 36?

200

63% of LA residents think it will be unfeasible to have a car-free version of this world class event in 2028

What is the Olympics?

300

Receive criticism for both sponsoring polls and making news with polls

Who is the media?

300

This is the number of observations generally desired in a national poll

What are roughly 1000-1200 people?

300

87% of Californians believe this technology will affect the election outcome

What is AI?

300

According to a recent CSULB poll voters described these two candidates with terms "NASA" and "fighter pilot"

Who are George Whitesides and Mike Garcia? (CA-27)
400

Between 1969-1996, just 4 topics comprised 90% of news coverage about polls. This topic was number 1 on that ranked list.

What are candidates and elections?

400

A quality sample seeks to represent this larger group of people

What is a population?

400

A proposition with polling approximately is tied, the fate of this rent control reform might come down to renter/owner turnout

What is Prop 33?

400

Actually a Riverside congressional race. It is tied at 46%, while Garvey leads Schiff by 4 points in this district

What is CA-41? Who is Calvert-Rollins?

500

Measures attitudes after a treatment is administered to some research participants

What is a survey experiment?

500

Only 30% of Californians believe this policy problem is better than last year. While 50% believe it is worse than last year.

What is crime?

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