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Originally Posted by x42bn6  The point of a sampling poll is to derive a useful idea of a population based upon a sample. Polling the entire nation is unfeasible. Polling a sample and drawing conclusions on the whole of America is statistically sound as long as the sample is unbiased.* |
I didnt mean poll everyone in the nation... not everyone in the United States is eligable to cast a vote. Futher more not everyone who is eligable to vote comes out to vote for president. Yes it has the largest voter turn out but did you by chance take a gander at the % of how many actually made the effort to vote? Lets see I think it was 61%. Thats a little over half of eligable voters. If you assumed the rest of the 39% were to vote accordingly would you just agree with it?
assuming the rest of the population will vote accordingly is not sound.