Why an online poll? Dating back decades, we’ve done phone polling, in which surveyors randomly dial phone numbers and pose a series of questions to people who answer and are willing to participate.

The new poll was conducted online as part of SurveyMonkey’s 2016 Election Tracking project, which recruits respondents from the large number people who take polls on the company’s do-it ...

The SurveyMonkey poll, with its take-it-or-leave-it question, is part of a 30-day comment period that included a virtual public hearing Monday.