The Record of Internet-Based Opinion Polls in Predicting the Results of 72 Races in the November 2000 US Elections

George Terhanian, Jonathan W. Siegal, Cary Overmeyer, John Bremer and Humphrey Taylor

The authors describe the use of internet-based surveys to predict the results of 72 races in the U.S.
  

The Record Of InternetBased Opinion Polls In Predicting The Results of 72 Races In The November 2000 US Elections

Humphrey Taylor,John Bremer, Cary Overmeyer, Jonathan W. Siegel and George Terhanian Harris Interactive

Introduction

Last winter, the International Journal of Market Researchpublished a paper 'Does internet research work?' (Taylor 2000) which described the work that Harris Interactive was doing to develop internetbased opinion polls in the United States. It described the early stages of the development and the use of demographic and propensity score weighting to correct for biases in raw data collected from samples...

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