wHAT ARE THE SHORCOMINGS OF ANY PUBLIC OPINION POLL?
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The primary shortcoming in any public opinion poll is that there is a tendency toward bias at every stage of the questioning process.  The person asking the questions has his bias; a person who wrote the question has her bias; a person who is answering the question has a bias as well.  The former two forms of bias should ideally not show up in the results of an ethically conducted poll, however they often do.\nThe next most important shortcoming is that while ideally the sample set (the specific group of people to whom the poll is given) is big enough and diverse enough to represent the general population, commonly small and/or homogeneous samples are used to save money or time or both.  Sometimes homogeneous and small samples are used by unethical poll takers to influence the outcome of their poll.\nIn short, polls will never be 100% helpful until they are designed, executed, and administered with practically no human intervention whatsoever.  But what's the fun in that?
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hope this helps\n\n\nhttp://help.yahoo.com/help/ca/groups/polls/polls-03.html
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There is no such thing as a truly non-biased poll, because all polls are written in language, and the language used for the questions inherently creates implications that result in some bias.\n\nThe best you can do is look at many different polls on a subject, conducted by many different groups, and sort of average them out.
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You cannot, as the individual biases of the people affect the poll.\n\nWhat you are looking for is a poll that represents the people, not one that is unbiased.  For that, you need a large sample.  If you were doing a poll involving a town of 500, talk to at least 350 people.  If you were doing a state, that number would be much larger.\n\nA poll is to show the opinions of the people, not to be unbiased.  So you  need a large sample of the group you are targeting to get a good poll.
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Keep looking...you'll find simple questions. Go to the Polling Category.
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You do realize, all polling data is subject to some error factor.  In addition, polls are easily slanted by the wording of questions and the size and make-up of the group polled.  In other words, if you ask the right question of the right person you will get the answer you want.  Having said that, here is some of the info you are looking for.\n\nAs I recall, Nixon left office with a rating of less than 25%  That's probably the lowest.\n\nBTW Clinton left office with a rating in the mid 60% range.\n\nFunny thing, Kennedy first committed troops to Viet Nam and left office (assassinated) with approval rating above 60%.  The war ended on Nixon's watch and he left office below 25%.\n\nAmericans have some real issues with politics.
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People generally make an estimate.\n\nWise people will check their judgements.
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Politicians have no morals.\n\n\nThey have polls instead
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exit polls can not hurt an election as the people have already voted,\nBUT\nwhen those polls are used to manipulate how people vote, like in Fl 2000 when the winner was projected long before polls closed
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Here are related polls:\nhttp://www.pollingreport.com/immigration.htm
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It is information collected by poll,they ask a question then give you several answers to choose from.I really don't think it is acurate.\nGallup does the polls ,they call me all the time,I don't answer their calls any more.
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"the public opinion on homosexuality"
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so votes could be  stolen?
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http://www.pollingreport.com/CongJob.htm
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Better question should be HOW MANY VOTES WERE STOLEN AND MANIPULATED TO WIN THE ELECTION ?
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I wouldn't say that they should follow public opinion, but they should consider it.  After all, we are fond of saying we are a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people".  If that is the case, the people should be listened too.
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For polls a good one is www.pollingreport.com\n\nFor stats, depending on what you are looking for, the CIA World Factbook Website has some decent stats on every country in the world