Langer Research Associates

5/30/14: Langer Research Associates produces public opinion polls for the ABC News television network, including representing ABC in its partnership in the ongoing ABC News/Washington Post poll. Please click here for a newly updated summary of the methodology used in these surveys and our survey reporting standards. We maintain an ABC-based e-mail... distribution list providing notification of new ABC News/Washington Post poll analyses. To join it, please contact info@langerresearch.com. 5/19/14: Bloomberg News today reported a national survey on customer reaction to the data breach at Target stores. The survey, conducted for Bloomberg by Langer Research Associates, received additional coverage from several other news outlets, including the Detroit News, The Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Pioneer Press (in St. Paul, Minnesota), the Austin American-Statesman, The Hill, The Columbian (in Clark County, Washington), Business Times, Finance & Commerce and multifarious financial news websites. 5/16/14: Langer Research Associates today presented a study evaluating the predictive validity of the weekly Bloomberg® Consumer Comfort Index in relation to personal expenditures and stock market values. The paper found that the CCI improves the traditional model for predicting personal expenditures, and substantially outperforms a buy-and-hold strategy in a variety of hypothetical stock investments for the period tested. The paper, presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in Anaheim, California, is available here, the presentation slides are here and details on the CCI are here. 5/15/14: A national survey in Afghanistan finds a virtual dead heat in the presidential runoff election between Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, with sharp ethnic and regional differences among likely voters. But the poll also finds opportunity for substantial acceptance of the eventual outcome, with more than seven in 10 Afghans saying they'll see whichever candidates wins as the ...Read More