The importance of independent political coverage
In response to Donald Trump's announcement on Monday that his campaign will revoke press credentials provided to The Washington Post, AP released this statement from Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll:
Update on study of alternatives to exit polling
See update
here.
As early voting becomes more
popular, AP has been testing new ways to more accurately survey the people who
cast their ballots before Election Day, amid increasing costs and declining response rates of telephone polls.
An ‘impactful, buzzy set of political polling’
A staff memo by Vice President-International News John Daniszewski describes how AP’s news survey specialist developed original, impactful polling on the presidential candidates whose findings earlier this month “reset the political news agenda”:
AP Latin America team advances on the path of presidential interviews
A week after sitting down with former Mexican President Vicente Fox, AP’s Latin America team scored another all-formats, one-on-one interview with the president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri.
Beyond exit polls: AP tests online surveys of voters
To help in calling winners and explaining why candidates won, The Associated Press has been testing new ways to survey voters around Election Day. After all, in the last presidential election, more than a third of voters did not go to a polling place on Election Day but instead voted ahead of time or by mail.