Anybody been called for a poll?

[*PhilHos*]

(10-27-2016, 12:00 AM)Cure4CF Wrote: Sorry if this has been posted before, if so please merge and or delete.

Not I, my wife, family, friends, or coworkers have been polled.  Do you all think they are accurate?  In the past, how close have they came to the actual outcome?  Any of them more accurate then others?  Thanks!

I've never really liked polls. I don't believe that they are all that representative of anything other than who was polled. There are what over 300 million people in this country (2 billion if you count the illegals; I kid, I kid)? How is a sample size of like a couple thousand supposed to represent the entire country? Not to mention the ease with which it seems to be able to get the numbers you want (not saying that all or even most polls are heavily biased). There's also no way of knowing if the polled is even telling the truth.

I could go on with more reasons I dislike polls, but I'll stop here.