Are Polls fixed?

[rAVES]

Poll question: Are Polls fixed?

All this polling business got me interested.

[rwheeler31]

1. yes

[Lint Head]

2. Everything else is.

:dem:

[CT_Progressive]

3. roflcopter !

:rofl:

[NoodleBoy]

4. if they don't include every candidate, including the ones who polled within the margin of error in

previous polls, then yes.

[CyberPieHole]

5. Funny how easy it is to believe in them when they reflect one's views...

:hi:

[tiptoe]

6. Sometimes: "Pollster guilty of fake data conspiracy"

http://www.connpost.com/ci_4298956

BRIDGEPORT — A polling company owner admitted participating in a conspiracy to falsify data in order to meet deadlines for clients, which included the campaigns of President Bush, U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Mayor John M. Fabrizi.
...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Chang said the firm's employees conducted telephone interviews using a scripted questionnaire.

But Chang said on several occasions when the company was running up against a deadline to complete a job, results were falsified. Sometimes, the respondent's gender or political affiliation were changed to meet a quota, other times all survey answers were fabricated.

FBI Special Agent JeffRovelli said 50 percent of information compiled by DataUSA and transmitted to Bush's campaign was falsified.
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[Buzz Clik]

7. The cool thing about DU polls ....

you can change the questions for quite some time after the it starts. So, if it's going badly, just edit the questions.

[depakid]

8. Seems to me someone's suffering from irony impairment....

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