How to Use pollster in a Sentence

pollster

noun
  • Most pollsters thought the race was too close to call.
    — Will Croxton, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • So what did our pollster and strategist make of it?
    — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 6 Feb. 2026
  • And even when a race is too close to call, a public pollster has to call it.
    — John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • If the pollsters and the markets turn out to be wrong, the pound has a long way to fall.
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Also, both of the pollsters cited above have whiffed in past races.
    — Philip Klein, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • That is nearly the same as last month's rating from this pollster.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • Ben Tulchin, Sanders’ pollster, said such moves do not go far enough.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
  • At the sharp end of the rope, there are no pollsters or media pundits to advise you.
    — Ben Santer, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The pollster was leaning against the split-rail fence, looking at the horses.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • In the final month of the campaign, most pollsters were saying the race was too close to call.
    — Graham Messick, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The blue tide washed further than most pollsters had predicted.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • For many pollsters, costs are covered by media partners.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
  • When pollsters asked who would do better in specific areas, the gaps were stark.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • And that would be Cox and Bailey, though some pollsters may differ.
    — John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • That may be the case in polls conducted by phone, in which the pollster can hear a person’s response.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Wells' campaign put out a poll conducted by a Biden pollster that found a much tighter race.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Vince Breglio, a pollster for the Reagan campaign, didn’t buy it.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 26 Sep. 2020
  • So, there's plenty of reason to be skeptical of the pollster.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Chuck Schumer’s pollster has Graham up 38 points.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In late May, pollsters had her leading 43% to 26%.
    — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Of those, the pollster found 570 who were likely to vote in the primary.
    — Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • Both pollsters surveyed respondents via text message, phone and web.
    — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • But the takeaway for Ragnar’s pollster, Chris Perkins, is clear.
    — Marc Caputo, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The campaign brought the problem to the attention of the pollster and its media partners.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 2 Feb. 2020
  • McCrary is one of Whitmer's pollsters.
    — CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Ten years later, that figure has risen to 68%, according to the same pollsters.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, in the run-up to this shutdown, pollsters have seemed less interested in the topic than in the past.
    — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Klain told the pollster that the White House was aware of it and had been taking it seriously for months.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2021
  • There is a sense that Trump has momentum, but pollster John Zogby warned not to bank on that.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Tracking data over time can be challenging due to the changing nature of how questions are phrased by pollsters.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025

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