>Doug:
>> But they're supposed to compensate for this in the weighting scheme,
>> or at least try to.
>>
>
>Doug, I think you put too much confidence in this whole business.
Not really - that's why I said "supposed to."
Election polls do have a pretty rigorous real-world test - the comparison of final results with actual votes (assuming those are counted more or less correctly). We'll soon see if this year's are any worse than earlier ones, and how the various houses stack up.
Doug