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>>I don't acception ANY information (News Media, Polls, ect.) at face value. I accept them as the view of the source presenting them. You stated that 1000's of participants take part in the polls. Where is that information published? I have not seen a single poll in recent weeks state anything except the percentages. The poll maybe conducted with only 100 people, you can't be sure. When CBS or NBC (insert poll publisher) state that they have conducted a poll, who has actually (physically) conducted the poll. Has the news service actually done the work or do they contract a polling service? This information is not given. A branch of a political party maybe conducting the poll with 1000's of registered members of their party. (Both parties conduct polls so I'm not saying that one party is more honest then the other)
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>How can you blindly accept information as absolute truth without knowing the background of where, how and who collected it?

A little info on sampling:

Unless stated otherwise, most national news polls are conducted on 1500 subjects, for a +- 3% deviation. These polls are remarkably accurate, i.e., they can predict election results extremely accurately. However, they're only a snapshot in time, and may fluctuate. That's why exit polling is so accurate, it's done at the actual time. Also, hastily contrived polls may result in biased questions. The following questions got quite different results, in fact:

1) If the president commited a crime, should he be impeached?
2) Should the president be impeached if he committed perjury?

(1) Is an example of 'leading' (start with the result to subliminally influence answer) and non-specific word ('crime') bias.
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.
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