Nerd Alert: Does asking the vote intention question on a survey differently impact the result?

Results of a quick survey experiment on the latest Abacus Data national survey

For the past 10 years, I’ve been teaching the polling and public opinion course in the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management at Carleton University (POLM 5010) and a part of the content focuses on questionnaire development, sampling, and survey design. It’s well known that how a question is worded can have a big impact on the resul…