How do you get represented in political polls?
Everybody doesn’t. That’s why polls are meaningless.
The only numbers that will matter are those on November 4th.
Go out and make your voice heard then.
Everybody doesn’t. That’s why polls are meaningless.
The only numbers that will matter are those on November 4th.
Go out and make your voice heard then.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:49 am
Everybody doesn’t. That’s why polls are meaningless.
The only numbers that will matter are those on November 4th.
Go out and make your voice heard then.
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March 19th, 2010 at 12:58 am
I wouldn’t care, to be honest.
Get represented by voting November 4th.
Obama/Biden ‘08 For America
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March 19th, 2010 at 1:09 am
I don’t know, because they never poll me. So I wonder: Who are all those people out there whose opinions make the Gallup Poll?
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March 19th, 2010 at 1:59 am
Do like cnn and other media do,,write down some numbers,give it a +/- 4% and show it to the world,make people believe it by having people in your favor agree with you and there you are.
You being represented is meaningless to how media works now-a-days.
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March 19th, 2010 at 2:49 am
Voters are selected for their opinions randomly. A small sample in a geographical area is taken and a mathematical formula (done today by COMPUTER) determines the probably of all the voters selections as they do from the sample. It is done by the law of probability, developed by gamblers in the early part of the last century.
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March 19th, 2010 at 3:17 am
Random luck.
Any good poll calls between 1500 and 3000 or so people completely randomly. You can’t get on any list or anything, save having a phone number. It seems like a small number, but the math and statistical accuracy of that size sampling has been proven for years. It creates a random pool across all demographic and regional factors.
But with 300,000,000 people in America, the chances you’ll get called for any given poll are slim, about 1 in 200,000. If they ran a thousand polls in the campaign season, assuming no overlap, you still only have about a 1 in 200 chance of being contacted.
I have been called once and it was interesting. They ask a lot of demographic questions (income, family size, political affiliation, age, gender, ethnicity, likeliness to vote, etc) and then about 10 political questions.
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