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To: Arthurio
The phone lists they’re using may be contacting too many Democrat households.

We now know that only 9% of all calls result in interviews.

Assembling a random sample of the entire universe out of a sample that represents only one-in-eleven is virtually impossible.

Most of the polls weight for the standard demographics -- age, race, gender, income, education, etc. But they do not weight for party identification, simply accepting whatever the result is.

Given the weighting by race, the continual over-sampling of Democrats is obviously an artifact of white Democrats being more likely to answer the phone and respond to a pollster than are white Republicans.

46 posted on 10/22/2012 10:53:13 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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To: okie01

I am wondering who is it that is getting polled? I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller ID. Otherwise, it goes to voice mail, and I call back if it is someone I want to speak with.


50 posted on 10/22/2012 10:56:27 AM PDT by Arthurio
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