[Man50D]

Some points about polls:

1. Polls question only a very small fraction of the population.

2. Pollsters can target a group of people they know will give certain responses.

3. Questions can be structured in such way to elicit specific answers.

4. Pollsters can disregard answers they deem incompatible with their ideology and continue to ask people until they get the desired response.

[dangus]

Pretty puny lead. The MoE has to be at least 7%.

[Strategerist]

And polls turned out to be pretty accurate in 2006.

They’re not nearly as inaccurate as people around here claim they are - usually out of wishful thinking.

Now, STRAW polls are universally completely worthless.

[truth_seeker]

“Some points about polls:”

You probably never took a statistics class.