TOPIC: SAMPLING

Sampling

Why do you think different polls got such a wide range of estimates of Bush's lead in the polls?

According to the republican Ed Goeas who was a publisher at the highly regarded battle ground survey one thing that is of real importance is that whether the polls have been conducted on weekends or during the week. The reason for this was that the political pollsters don't poll on weekends and instead prefer to take polls during the week days i.e. from Sunday night through to Thursday night which means that the weekend results are just not reflective of what the ...