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Originally Posted by juanbenae

Polls are not some college students out in front of the grocery store with a clip board anymore. They mine information and try to contact folks they already know their answers to make it their poll theirs.......

One of my MBA classes was about surveys and polling, and a lot of it was focused on how you can structure questions to avoid leading the witness and also get a true cross section of the population that you wish to survey. Both of which are very difficult things, and that’s before you interject political bias (both ways) into the mix. I think most public polls are designed to reflect a certain outcome from the onset, more to manipulate and coerce than actually understanding the mindset of the populace.

Case in point here, I’d guess the majority of Pelicans vote but currently 89% of responses say they don’t respond to political polls. 11% of the population probably isn’t very representative of the entire country.