Introducing the Slate/SurveyMonkey Political Survey

Slate has an announcement to make. We have teamed up with our friends at SurveyMonkey to bring you the first ever Slate/SurveyMonkey Political Survey. Each month between now and November, we will unveil an informal survey of people?s attitudes toward the presidential candidates?and how they are shifting. We want to show, in real time, how public perceptions are forming and changing around some of the big issues shaping the political conversation. This collaboration is a survey of more than 1,000 registered voters across the country, drawn from SurveyMonkey?s pool of more than 2 million survey respondents. (Conducted from May 8 to May 11, we received responses from 48 states, plus the District of Columbia. More than 60 percent of the participants were married, and the majority held full-time jobs across an array of fields. If you wanted to demographically pigeon-hole a likely survey taker, you?d probably end up with a college-educated Christian white male from California.) What it is not is a scientific poll with a rigorous margin for error. We are capturing a snapshot, not running a lab experiment.?

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