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To: jimbo123
Sound like valid points to me:

"Voters are becoming harder to contact, especially on landline telephones. Online polls have become commonplace, but some eschew probability sampling, historically the bedrock of polling methodology. And in the U.S., some pollsters have been caught withholding results when they differ from other surveys, “herding” toward a false consensus about a race instead of behaving independently."

5 posted on 05/08/2015 11:56:05 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

“in the U.S., some pollsters have been caught withholding results when they differ from other surveys, “herding” toward a false consensus about a race instead of behaving independently.””

If polls show leftists in lead, publish.
If polls a tie, spin.
If the numbers show conservative lead, bury.

That’s called “Modern Polling Interpretation”


6 posted on 05/08/2015 11:58:12 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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