Merriman River Group offers comprehensive polling services including:
- Survey questions tailored to each client's needs and interests in collaboration with our staff of political and survey-research experts
- Pre-survey analysis of the political dynamics of each specific race as part of the survey-building process
- Pre-survey planning for questions focused on understanding and winning over undecided voters
- Traditional interviewer calls utilizing "virtual call center" technology
- Accent- and dialect-appropriate interviewers
- Automated (IVR) phone polling, with accuracy that rivals live calls
- Real-time top-line data
- Full cross-tabs within 24 hours
- Complete analysis from our trained and knowledgeable staff
- Full integration of polling analyses with strategic planning and solution
To our knowledge, Merriman River Group was the only pollster--public or private--to correctly predict that Dan Malloy, rather than Ned Lamont, would win the Democratic Governor's Primary held on Tuesday August, 10, 2010. This result, which was part of a private poll for another state-wide race, was covered in the online newspaper "Only in Bridgeport."
"Just about every poll had Lamont ahead. One private poll by the Merriman River Group, which OIB hired to poll Mayor Bill Finch's standing with city voters one year ago, had Malloy pulling ahead of Lamont in the days before the primary." Link