[FITZ]

It's been way too many moons since statistics for me but methodologies are there to fairly accurately measure the populace.

How? I've never been polled. How can you accurately measure the populace? Internet poll like the pop-ups that I see ---- those reach people like me. Telephone surveys? What people answer their phones? Man on the street poll? Magazine polls?

Results of polls should report on who was polled, how the poll was done. They should even be more honest and say for example: "of those people answering their phones between 8:00am and 8:00pm, 58% plan to vote for Kerry...."

[deport]

Results of polls should report on who was polled, how the poll was done.

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Agree and the poll internals are important in assessing the polls purpose, type, etc. Some will share their internals and others don't. Political polls are tools and nothing more as the final determinate is secured on voting day. But if you look at polls leading up to an election and then look at the results of the voting most will be a fairly accurate predictor....