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Thus no results they claim can get projected to the universe of voters.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JqSkXfymtEA\/VrzWqrSC21I\/AAAAAAAAApQ\/UFArP69wYaA\/s1600\/dewey-defeats-truman.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JqSkXfymtEA\/VrzWqrSC21I\/AAAAAAAAApQ\/UFArP69wYaA\/s640\/dewey-defeats-truman.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003EPollsters use a totally wrong, unscientific method. Typically, they survey between 700 and 1,000 people chosen randomly. Let's say these 1,000 people get chosen by equal distribution, that is, 20 in each state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo one can project the results from a mere 20 persons to the universe of voters in any state. Thus, the number of surveys completed would be too small. Every statistician worth his salt should know this truth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHowever, there is a far more damning reason why you should denounce all polls being foisted upon you. \u003Cb\u003EBecause of the electoral college, the presidential election is\u0026nbsp;fifty eight (58)\u0026nbsp;separate elections and requires 58 surveys for\u0026nbsp;full coverage to predict the full results.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003EAn accurate poll must account for the electoral college since\u0026nbsp;presidential election doesn't get decided by the popular vote.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is one election in each of 48 states that have winner-take-all elections for the electoral college electors and one more for the District of Columbia. Two states,\u0026nbsp;Maine and Nebraska, lack winner-take-all elections. Those states combine for nine elections.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/federal-register\/electoral-college\/about.html\"\u003EThe U.S. National Archives and Records Administration\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe founding fathers established [the Electoral College] in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state’s entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EUnder the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. For this reason, in the following discussion, the word “state” also refers to the District of Columbia.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIf a pollster did not need to account for the electoral college, to get a margin of error ± 4% would require 784 completed surveys at the\u0026nbsp;95% confidence level. Yet, because a presidential election is 58 separate elections and not one, proper polling requires 58 polls, each with 784 completed questionnaires for a margin of error of ±4%. That's 48 polls for the all-or-nothing states and nine polls for each electoral district of Maine and Nebraska.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003EFor results that have a margin of error ±4% at the 95% confidence anyone surveying would need to complete 45,472 surveys and all on the same day! \u003C\/b\u003EOtherwise, you don't have a scientifically conducted poll with results that can get projected to the universe of voters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ccode\u003EThe math: 784 surveys × 58 = 45,472\u003C\/code\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.eac.gov\/research\/election_administration_and_voting_survey.aspx\"\u003EUnited States Election Assistance Commission\u003C\/a\u003E, which Congress established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) as an independent, bipartisan commission, serves as a national clearinghouse of information on election administration and produces the \u0026nbsp;foremost data collection effort related to voter registration, election administration, and the ways in which Americans cast their ballots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe EAC defines two concepts:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EVoting Age Population (VAP)\u003C\/b\u003E: People who are 18 years of age or older, regardless of whether they are eligible to register to vote.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003ECitizen Voting Age Population (CVAP)\u003C\/b\u003E: Persons \u0026nbsp;who are citizens and of voting age (18 years or older). These numbers are estimates generated by the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe only care about the CVAP numbers. With the CVAP numbers, for each state, we can adjust the number of needed completed questionnaires to the count of legal voters in each state and still maintain our targeted margin of error with confidence. As it turns out, we can cut down the number of completed questionnaires to 600 for each state, except Wyoming, which we can cut down by one less to 599.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere is what the completed questionnaire counts should look like:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1mk80JrqRoEvYoH9ixrJTA7Lle11ciKzo1pejb1lCtxo\/pubhtml?gid=0\u0026amp;single=true\u0026amp;widget=true\u0026amp;headers=false\" width=\"640\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, if some of the survey respondents complete a questionnaire before a candidate said something controversial, say freeze all immigration from countries with Mohammadans, while other survey respondents complete\\ the same questionnaire afterward, the results cannot be used since the opinions are collected on different facts. Time-sensitive surveys like voting surveys must be done on the same day for all respondents to be accurate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, during the 2012 presidential election campaign, a pollster would have needed to complete 9,000 questionnaires all on the same day to predict Obama the winner.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ciframe height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1mk80JrqRoEvYoH9ixrJTA7Lle11ciKzo1pejb1lCtxo\/pubhtml?gid=754424036\u0026amp;single=true\u0026amp;widget=true\u0026amp;headers=false\" width=\"640\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENearly all presidential election polls have completed survey counts of 500 to 1,000. Thus, the results from such polls cannot be projected to the universe of likely voters, hence such pollsters report wrong results. \u003C\/b\u003EIn short, do not believe any of those polls.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, every time another variable gets added, doubling of completed surveys must happen. So if a legit pollster wants to know how Latina females plan to vote, such a pollster would need to complete a whopping 89,376 surveys on the same day within a tight news window!\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EEvery poll ever reported on television and every poll ever printed in a newspaper regarding presidential races have been fabricated. Such polls were never scientific. Until polls adopt the scientific method of polling, all future presidential polls will be wrong.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;\"\u003EDisclosure\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: \u0026quot;arial\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;tahoma\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;helvetica\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;freesans\u0026quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px;\"\u003E: I used to work as the director of public opinion polling and marketing research for a Dow Jones owned newspaper. My grad work at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications included public opinion polling.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2938080886449362778\/posts\/default\/1779568115352325434"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2938080886449362778\/posts\/default\/1779568115352325434"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/truedollarjournal.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/why-every-presidential-election-poll.html","title":"WHY EVERY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POLL FOR 2016 YOU SHALL SEE OR HEAR WILL BE WRONG"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15342121843435066933"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JqSkXfymtEA\/VrzWqrSC21I\/AAAAAAAAApQ\/UFArP69wYaA\/s72-c\/dewey-defeats-truman.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}}});