> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:35:08 -0400, <press at bordersunion.org> wrote:
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>> Future fodder for someone's thesis on the failure of polling.
>
>
> Doug can provide much more data from AAPOR but, I'll just say, as a
> former employee of the (Mervin) Field Poll in Ca. founded in '45, that
> the Field Poll from 1948 to 2000, was within 1%+or- of the Nov. Pres.
> popular vote.
> In Defense of Public Opinion Polling by
> Kenneth Warren, Hardcover 384 pages (June 1, 2001)
> Publisher: Westview Press.
Really. Not interested in the self-defeating feedback loop you want to set up.