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{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)The earliest forerunners of the modern public opinion poll appear to be tallies of voter preferences reported by the Raleigh Star and North Carolina State Gazette and the Wilmington American Watchman and Delaware Advertiser prior to the election of 1824. A study of the background of the election shows these polling efforts were a natural outgrowth of a campaign involving the voters' first real choice of a president and four colorful candidates. Some researchers have attributed the origins of polling to other papers and other historical periods. Some have credited the Harrisburg Pennsylvanian and the Raleigh Star, or the Pennsylvanian alone, with reporting the first public opinion poll. Others give much later dates for the first poll, mentioning a Chicago Record survey during the 1896 presidential campaign and the New York Herald election forecasts prior to 1900. It now appears that the Pennsylvanian merely was reporting the results of the American Watchman poll, so that credit for the first polls should go to the Watchman and the Star.
The earliest forerunners of the modern public opinion poll appear to be tallies of voter preferences reported by the Raleigh Star and North Carolina State Gazette and the Wilmington American Watchman and Delaware Advertiser prior to the election of 1824. A study of the background of the election shows these polling efforts were a natural outgrowth of a campaign involving the voters' first real choice of a president and four colorful candidates. Some researchers have attributed the origins of polling to other papers and other historical periods. Some have credited the Harrisburg Pennsylvanian and the Raleigh Star, or the Pennsylvanian alone, with reporting the first public opinion poll. Others give much later dates for the first poll, mentioning a Chicago Record survey during the 1896 presidential campaign and the New York Herald election forecasts prior to 1900. It now appears that the Pennsylvanian merely was reporting the results of the American Watchman poll, so that credit for the first polls should go to the Watchman and the Star.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)The earliest forerunners of the modern public opinion poll appear to be tallies of voter preferences reported by the Raleigh Star and North Carolina State Gazette and the Wilmington American Watchman and Delaware Advertiser prior to the election of 1824. A study of the background of the election shows these polling efforts were a natural outgrowth of a campaign involving the voters' first real choice of a president and four colorful candidates. Some researchers have attributed the origins of polling to other papers and other historical periods. Some have credited the Harrisburg Pennsylvanian and the Raleigh Star, or the Pennsylvanian alone, with reporting the first public opinion poll. Others give much later dates for the first poll, mentioning a Chicago Record survey during the 1896 presidential campaign and the New York Herald election forecasts prior to 1900. It now appears that the Pennsylvanian merely was reporting the results of the American Watchman poll, so that credit for the first polls should go to the Watchman and the Star.