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Originally Posted by StickyGreen
Fred Thompson just said on TV that the polls and media are almost always incorrect, so I guess you and ol' Fred disagree on that...
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That is because he is down in the polls. If you are not in the lead you tell people polls can't be correct because you want your supporters to still believe in you.
The United Nations uses the same polling companies the our news channels and papers do in order to monitor elections in third world countries. They do this because polling is very accurate and in a few cases the data from polls has actually been used to prove elections to be rigged and bring about lawsuits and reelections.
How the poll is done really is the main source of how accurate it is. If the poll is done by a third party and is done correctly (which many of the big polls we see on the news are) they can almost always be counted on to be extremely accurate.
You can make a poll skew anyway you want, but when you look at the big companies that do this type of thing year in year out they are almost never wrong.