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totodeinhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-10 04:58 PM
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18. The article you quoted concerns arguments over technical issues involving polling methods.
SurveyUSA uses a smaller sample size of younger voters because younger voters have historically voted in smaller numbers than other age groups, while on the other hand older voters historically have voted in greater numbers. Most other pollsters use a similar methodology. And that's fine, you can quibble over methodology. But the best way to judge a pollster is to look at how their pre-election predictions compare with the actual results, and using that measure, Survey USA comes out at or near the top.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/search/label/pollster%20ratings
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