Who else thinks political polls are rigged?

Question

I am starting to think that the majority of political polls are rigged. So many of them always end up neck and neck, or too close to call. I don't think people are split 50-50 in their opinions as often as the media seems to portray them. I think the media rigs the polls to be 50-50, neck and neck because it is "more exciting" and "suspensful" to have a tight race and it is easier to rig the elections.

Answer 1

You can get polls to say anything you want them to say just by the way they word the question. Or the demographics of where the poll is taken can also skew results.

Answer 2

As long as the polling organization is legitimate, then the polls are incredibly accurate. Polling is scientifically studied and has, for years, been corrected to be more and more accurate.

Those (like LeoGirl) who talk about them being rigged just get angry because the polls don't agree with them.

In fact, organizations that oversee international elections use polls as a manner of tracking elections and election accuracy.

Some respected polling organizations:
Gallup, Ipsos, Opinion Dynamics. Most major media outlets also have polling organizations who use scientifically verified methods.

If you don't trust a particular poll on an issue, you can average a multitude of polls and that would give you decent insight of opinions.

Answer 3

Leogirl said it best again... I better stop trying to answer these after she takes a whack at them - she does a nice job of laying out the answers...

Polls, for the most part, especially the ones on the news, are not scientific and worded so poorly that they are pretty much useless, except as liberal propaganda... oops, sorry, I just defined useless = liberal propaganda...