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.

SurveyMonkey Fills the Gap as Traditional Political Polls Flounder After some high-profile failures, pollsters are turning to Web-based surveys to replace traditional telephone polling. Facebook ...

For the poll, SurveyMonkey solicited responses from Britons who were taking other surveys — a random sample of 75,000 other U.K. surveys that were using SurveyMonkey’s platform.