In reality, they only gathered data on 4,570 voters and they're using those results to project what happened in the entire county that has over 2.5 million voters. Pretty small sampling.
# In reality, they only gathered data on 4,570 voters and they’re using those results to project what happened in the entire county that has over 2.5 million voters. Pretty small sampling.
Depending upon their methodology, it’s not really particularly small. Consumer and political polling routinely has much smaller samples. You’d have to look at the details of the number to determine the appropriate margin of error.