Is there a trustworthy poll that tabulates politic support?

Question

A non-bias poll that most accurately depicts how Americans feel about issues.

Answer 1

There is no such thing as a truly non-biased poll, because all polls are written in language, and the language used for the questions inherently creates implications that result in some bias.

The best you can do is look at many different polls on a subject, conducted by many different groups, and sort of average them out.

Answer 2

Though polls cannot be theoretically unbiased, if the questioner tries to eliminate bias, they can still end up with somewhat accurate data.

Obviously some posters on here were too busy to take even a minor statistics class.

If polls didn't work, no statistically based marketing campaigns that measure public response would ever work--and they do, they work all the time to the tune that hundereds of millions of dollars are risked on their results product wise.

When HUGE corporations use focus groups and test markets to find the best articulation for their products message, they use polls, if that data was bunk, as suggested by someone above, because of the "inherent bias in languages," half of the marketing industry would disappear.

I only trust Gallup. They're big enough that they don't have to cater results to make money.

Zogby is RUN by the Democrats so I think they are the LEAST reliable. Plus, I don't think they've called an election correctly yet.

Answer 3

I don't think so. Polls are almost always generated with a bias built in . The way the questions are constructed forces you to approve or disapprove of an issue that might be just a hair off of your legit opinion. I've seen polls where the inclusion of an additional fact or proposal could change my answer. An issue like illegal immigration for example. All of the proposed solutions have multiple facets some more or less acceptable to different entities. I think its one example of a poll question that you just can't write a pat question about it and get a true reading. Entitlements, prosecuting the war, budget deficit( how can you approve or disapprove of the budget deficit if you can't see the rest of the accounting equation?) , Big oil and pricing, Corporate oversight, all require an essay question type response to get at the root of the electorate's opinion.

Answer 4

Zogby