2020 Issues Polls

Issues Poll 2020

Poll Documents

Boston Globe Article

Statement of Methodology

This survey of 500 Massachusetts residents was conducted between November 12 and November 15, 2019, and is based on live telephone interviews of adults 18 years of age or older. Each area’s quota and demographic information -- including race, education, and age -- was determined from 2010 Census data, the 2018 American Community Survey, and affiliated sources. Samples of both standard landlines (11 percent) and cell phones (89 percent) were called using a probability-proportionate-to-size method, which means that the phone numbers assigned to each area were proportional to the number of adult residents in each area. The 14 Massachusetts counties were grouped into four general regions. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is + -4.4 percentage points. Error margins increase for smaller subgroups in the cross-tabulation document that follows. All surveys may be subject to other sources of error, including but not limited to coverage error and measurement error.

Poll Documents

Suffolk Press Release

Poll: 14 Percent of Sanders Backers Will Vote for Trump, 3rd-Party Candidate or Leave Presidential Ballot Blank

USA TODAY Press Release

Poll: Nearly 1 in 4 Sanders supporters not on board yet with voting for Biden

Statement of Methodology

This survey of 638 Bernie Sanders voters was conducted between April 18 and April 25, 2020, and is based on live telephone interviews of previously identified Sanders voters from Suffolk University 2019 national and 2020 state polls. The subset of state polls included respondents voting for Bernie Sanders in the Iowa Caucus, New Hampshire Primary, Nevada Caucus, and Massachusetts, Utah, and California Democratic Primaries. Surveys were administered in English and Spanish. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is +/-4 percentage points. Error margins increase for smaller subgroups in the cross-tabulation document above. All surveys may be subject to other sources of error, including but not limited to coverage error and measurement error.