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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shadow who wrote (1891)	9/9/1998 8:48:00 AM
From: j_b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

<<You can get any results you want out of a poll, by wording your questions right and selecting the people you poll. >> No offense, but I've heard that line so many times, and I don't believe it. No "real" pollster will hang up on you based on your political affiliation. It's too obvious. If I wanted to slant the results, I wouldn't let my opposition know I was doing it by anything so blatant or stupid. What are you implying, that only Democrats were polled? As to the poll results - I agree with both points. Wording and sample selection can cause poll results to be skewed. That's why pollsters such as Gallup have developed a following - they have figured out how to make their procedures result in response ratios that resemble actual votes or consumer purchases or whatever. I still don't trust political polls because there is so much incentive to interpret the results in a way favorable to your cause.