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Who took the poll? Langer Research Associates, a company he founded in 2010 after more than a decade as ABC's polling director....so he's now being PAID to take the poll by ABC and maybe produce the results they want to explain a "news cycle". Okay!!
What groups have they previously polled? A quick Google Search helped figure this out in five sections, with another 15 sections to look at the results-http://bit.ly/RJSbXA
Who was included in the sample? Random national sample of 1,022 adults and 842 registered voters....
Key, if nearly 43% of the sample was of "registered voters", what were the "registered voters" party affiliation. The poll does not say.
How was the "Random Sample" determined? Think about this. If the poll included a "random sample" of voters between the ages of 18-24 or 65-80, would the polling company received a different result from "random sampling" individuals ages 25-64. Since the poll does not detail this answer, we don't know.
What part of the nation was the "random sample" v.s. the "registered voters" sample? For instance, if the polling company gained a majority of the answers from "Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Oklahoma....the pollster would gain probably different answers than from Midwestern or Eastern Seaboard states. Again, since we don't know (the poll does not state this) we have to determine that this poll is NON-Significant and probably contain outliers vastly different from pre-existing data.
So PLEASE stop believing all "polls" at face value unless the questions above ^^^^ are answered.
What groups have they previously polled? A quick Google Search helped figure this out in five sections, with another 15 sections to look at the results-http://bit.ly/RJSbXA
Who was included in the sample? Random national sample of 1,022 adults and 842 registered voters....
Key, if nearly 43% of the sample was of "registered voters", what were the "registered voters" party affiliation. The poll does not say.
How was the "Random Sample" determined? Think about this. If the poll included a "random sample" of voters between the ages of 18-24 or 65-80, would the polling company received a different result from "random sampling" individuals ages 25-64. Since the poll does not detail this answer, we don't know.
What part of the nation was the "random sample" v.s. the "registered voters" sample? For instance, if the polling company gained a majority of the answers from "Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Oklahoma....the pollster would gain probably different answers than from Midwestern or Eastern Seaboard states. Again, since we don't know (the poll does not state this) we have to determine that this poll is NON-Significant and probably contain outliers vastly different from pre-existing data.
So PLEASE stop believing all "polls" at face value unless the questions above ^^^^ are answered.
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