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The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup

The Gallup Organization

The Gallup Organization provides a variety of management consulting, human resources and statistical research services. It has over 40 offices in 27 countries....
that regularly conducts public opinion polls in the United States and more than 140 countries around the world. Gallup Polls are often referenced in the mass media

Mass media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a mainstream such as the population of a nation state....
as a reliable and objective measure of public opinion

Public opinion

Public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs held by the adult population. The principle approaches to the study of public opinion may be divided into 4 categories:...
. Gallup Poll results, analyses, and videos are published daily on in the form of .

The Gallup Poll is named after its inventor, the American

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
statistician

Statistics

Statistics is a Mathematics pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It also provides tools for prediction and forecasting based on data....
, George Gallup

George Gallup

George Horace Gallup was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a successful statistics of survey sampling for measuring opinion polls....
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The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup

The Gallup Organization

Mass media

Public opinion

United States

Statistics

George Gallup

George Horace Gallup was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a successful statistics of survey sampling for measuring opinion polls....
. Dr. Gallup founded the American Institute of Public Opinion, the precursor of The Gallup Organization, in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1935. To ensure his independence and objectivity, Dr. Gallup resolved that he would undertake no polling that was paid for or sponsored in any way by special interest groups such as the Republican and Democratic parties, a commitment that Gallup upholds to this day.

Historically, the Gallup Poll has measured and tracked the public's attitudes concerning virtually every political

Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
, social

Social

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, and economic issue of the day, including highly sensitive or controversial subjects. In 2005, Gallup began its , which continually surveys citizens in more than 140 countries, representing 95% of the world's adult population. General and regional-specific *, developed in collaboration with the world's leading behavioral economists, are organized into powerful indexes and topic areas that correlate with real-world outcomes.

Gallup Polls are best known for their accuracy in predicting the outcome of the current United States

United States

President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
election

United States presidential election

Elections for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the Electoral College , who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President....
. A notable exception is the 1948 Thomas Dewey

Thomas Dewey

Thomas Edmund Dewey was the List of Governors of New York and the unsuccessful Republican Party candidate for the President of the United States in United States presidential election, 1944 and United States presidential election, 1948....
-Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . As the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, he succeeded Franklin D....
election

United States presidential election, 1948

The United States presidential election of 1948 is considered by most historians as the greatest election upset in History of the United States....
, where nearly all pollsters predicted a Dewey victory. The Gallup Poll also inaccurately projected a slim victory by Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974....
in 1976

United States presidential election, 1976

The United States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It pitted incumbent President of the United States Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, against the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia , Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate....
, where he lost to Jimmy Carter by a small margin.

In 2008, Gallup interviewed no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults each day, providing the most watched of the race between John McCain

John McCain

John Sidney McCain III is the senior senator United States United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican Party presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election....
and Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
. Gallup publishes the results of its tracking survey in a three-day rolling average on Gallup.com.

In addition to political questions, Gallup has partnered with Healthways

Healthways

Healthways is a Disease management company founded in 1981 and headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.In 2003, the company topped a list of "America's fastest-growing small companies," based on earnings/share growth, revenue growth, and total return....
to track the well-being of U.S. residents through the surveys it conducts every day. Results of will be released at the national, statewide, and local level through events and news articles published on .

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