[marktwain]

The answer is the polls don’t work anymore. The response levels are so low that the narrow interests of special interests are over-represented.

I have come to the same conclusion. Your insight has helped me reach it.

Thanks

[muawiyah]

I'm disturbed by my own insights ~ can't be I'm the only person seeing these problems ~ but then again not all that many people have spent as much time as I have over the decades dwelling on the minutiae of statistical sampling.

Gallup and Rassmussen have 'splained some of what they are doing to mitigate these problems ~ which means they read these threads of ours where we have people looking at what's going on with polling technology.

We may well have helped solve the problem