Donald Trump destroys Kamala Harris in new poll
Donald Trump destroys Kamala Harris in new poll
The poll also highlights an ongoing issue for the Democratic Party in that Harris is considered less popular among voters than President Joe Biden.
The poll also highlights an ongoing issue for the Democratic Party in that Harris is considered less popular among voters than President Joe Biden.
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A DailyMail.com survey of 1,000 likely voters
Well that seems like some untrustworthy bullshit. Give me a sample size of 100,000 and maybe I’ll listen. Fucking polls…
A thousand voters is actually a perfectly good statistical sampling for the US population.
What matters is that
- the daily Mail isn't overly credible
- they don't mention how the thousand voters were selected.
A thousand people is enough to get you into single digit margin of error for a population the size of the US. If you find them by dialing random landlines, or mailing surveys to people with a voter history, your sample biases towards the demographic that still has landlines or that's willing to take the time to fill out a paper survey.
That's just an absurdly large sample size. 1000 is adequate if a little on the low side.
1000 daily mail readers isn't adequate
If the Daily Mail had been the complaint I might agree with you, it was the numbers though.
A 100,000 person response rate for a snap poll is basically impossible. Not enough people say yes to taking political polls. Most polling is done with 1000-1500, and if you want higher response rates, you have to look at aggregators like 538.