Should pollsters weight by party identification?

FAQ Legacy blog posts Weighting by Party

The debate over whether pollsters should statistically adjust (or weight) their samples by party identification has been heated during campaign 2004.  Here is a list of sequence of posts that covered this topic exhaustively:

It is worth noting that the debate about weighting by party is really a part of a larger debate also raging in 2004 about how pollsters define likely voters – click this link for more information.

Finally, click on this link to display short excerpts of all of the posts concerning weighting by party in reverse chronological order (most recent first).

Mark Blumenthal

Mark Blumenthal is the principal at MysteryPollster, LLC. With decades of experience in polling using traditional and innovative online methods, he is uniquely positioned to advise survey researchers, progressive organizations and candidates and the public at-large on how to adapt to polling’s ongoing reinvention. He was previously head of election polling at SurveyMonkey, senior polling editor for The Huffington Post, co-founder of Pollster.com and a long-time campaign consultant who conducted and analyzed political polls and focus groups for Democratic party candidates.