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I don't think I'm wrong because I recall recently reading an interview with . . . I think Gallup in which they said party affiliation is NOT a demographic because it can change at will. It is not like age or gender or income. They don't target it.

Come now, if it was targetted, then these wildly varying party mix results we see from various polls would make no sense. The polls would target the same mix over and over again. There would be no need to count how many Dems/GOP/Ind are in a given poll because it would have been arranged to be the same mix all year long.

33 posted on 10/02/2004 4:12:49 PM PDT by Owen

Gallup does not weight their polls. Many others do.

44 posted on 10/02/2004 4:19:03 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (Ask not what you can do for your country, ask the country what it will do for you!)

You're right. Gallup and Newsweek don't adjust for political party identification, so, if they happen to get a sample that is drastically different from the previous, or next, poll the results will be dramatically different. Checkout Mystery Pollster for more on this topic.

112 posted on 10/02/2004 7:12:52 PM PDT by Quicksilver (Yeah, but does it pass the "global test"?)

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