Talk:The Harris Poll

Proposed change to Harris primary topic
At present if you type "Harris" into the wikipedia search box you are taken to the Isle of Harrises entry! As there are many uses of the word Harris it has been proposed to change this so that when you type "Harris" you are taken to the Harris (disambiguation) page instead.

If you support/oppose this move or have any comments please add your input to the Harris Talk page.

Thanks --WickerWiki (talk) 19:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

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When did Harris start his polling firm?
This article suggested that Harris was an independent person who did polling for John F. Kennedy in 1960 and then founded a corporation to do the polling on a larger scale in 1963, or that is what impression I formed from first reading the article. Now I think it is clear that he began his company in 1956. The article on Louis Harris has this sentence: "In 1956 Harris left Roper's business and started his own firm, Harris and Associates, Inc.[2][3]" That suggests that Harris had his own company when he did polling for Kennedy's election in 1960.


 * Now I realize that it was The Harris Poll, the continuing surveys of public opinion that began in 1963. The Harris Poll links to Harris Insights & Analytics, this article. The sources for Harris having his firm since 1956 in the Harris article are here, a record of a 1992 interview with the author of a book on Super Pollsters published in 1992 and here, a page from the history of the Harris Interactive firm that clearly says that Harris started his firm in 1956. Now I think I understand the history of the many corporations separate from the Harris Poll itself, and have revised the lead to make that clear, the Harris Poll and its now long string of owners, its time as a public company and now again as a privately held company. I hope it is clearer to people who read the article, too. --Prairieplant (talk) 22:04, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 4 January 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Non-contested move  (t &#183; c)  buidhe  12:11, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Harris Insights & Analytics → The Harris Poll – Purplewriter just did a cut-and-paste move that I reverted. They did this with the rationale that The Harris Poll is the common name for this company, and I frankly agree with this. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 08:09, 4 January 2021 (UTC)