We at Zogby have polled all over the world – Iran, Kuwait, Malaysia, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Egypt, Argentina, South Korea, Palestine and Lebanon, to name a few places. Recently, we polled the national elections in Albania, a country noted for having hotly contested elections since the fall of communism in 1991. This year’s election pitted the Democratic Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Sali Berisha, against the Socialist Party led by Edi Rama. Our pre-election polling was remarkably accurate, with our prediction that the Democratic party would win 69 of the 140 seats up for election coming extremely close to the actual 70 seats taken by the party.

You can read more about our Albanian polling in John Zogby’s weekly article in Forbes here.  And from that same article, here are some parting thoughts from John Zogby on polling abroad:

Whenever we get the call to poll in a nation with a young or tenuous democracy, I take it as a great learning opportunity. One thing all Americans seem to agree upon is that democracy is the best antidote to war and international turmoil. Pollsters get the pleasure of watching, from a front row seat, democracy take hold. That’s just one more reason why I love this business.

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