Gary Drescher wrote:

Yes, of course. And those polls accurately reflected voter preferences at
the time.

Perhaps. A lot depends on how many people are polled and where. You have to get
the opinions of a good cross-section of the public. IIRC, that basically means
at least 4,000 people in a wide range of disparate places. I've seen results
published in which they interviewed 347 people at Times Square in one day. That
is not going to give you a statistically significant result of anything other
than, perhaps, the popularity of the businesses located there.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.