2007-12-16 16:28:55 · 11 answers · asked by Bob T 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
The poll taking started long ago. They are referring to opinion polls, not voting polls.
2007-12-16 16:49:27 · answer #1 · answered by joker_32605 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Polls (not sticks as you wrote) have nothing to do with official votes. Polling companies are paid to ask a supposedly random and small number of people and the results are extrapolated to the whole electorate. This gives others running an idea where they stand so they can make adjustments while also giving the press something to write about. They are only a problem when the unprepared voter decides to vote or not vote based on poll results.
2007-12-16 17:08:33 · answer #2 · answered by Caninelegion 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i dont think ron paul is behind poles i think the goverment is so scared that he may get it that they even have the media on lock so even when people that were going to vote ron paul they see that he is not doing well by the media stand point they pick another canidate **** fox and cnn this country is going to **** if ron paul is not elected
2007-12-17 22:33:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vote Ron Paul 2008! End the War! Get the government out of your life! Get rid of the IRS, and the Federal Reserve.
www.ronpaul2008.com
2007-12-16 18:02:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anthony M 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
"Poles" are nothing more than Surveys... -& they change by the day. Ron Paul's numbers are based on the # of random "Hits" HIS name gets- compared to all the others... R. Paul is doing pretty well here on the W.W.W. ...-But in the REAL World- he's not doing so hot. This COULD change, of course. But if he doesn't win SOMETHING in any of the Primaries between now & Feb. 6th of next year, his Campaigning days will be Numberd...
2007-12-16 16:37:52 · answer #5 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
A poll is pretty much any survey- not necesarily an official government sanctioned one. Typically new agencies hold polls where they either pick several thousand people in the U.S. at random, or pick a group of people who closely matches the actual ratio of ethnicity, wealth, and religion in the U.S. and ask them what their opinions are.
Thus Ron Paul is behind at the polls, because if you pick several thousand random people in the u.S. and ask them who they would vote for in the upcoming primaries, very few of them would say Ron Paul.
Edit: I'd also like to note to the other two people above me who made the same mistake, and the questioner himself, that it is spelled polls, not poles.
2007-12-16 16:34:14 · answer #6 · answered by Wise_Guy_57 4 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Those are not official poles.
They are poles asking how you will vote and they just give an indication.
2007-12-16 16:32:20 · answer #7 · answered by Magic Mouse 6 · 8⤊ 2⤋
Polls are the very reason that Dewey won, and Truman lost.
Somebody lost their job after that screw-up.
It's just primaries, kids. Make your statement. Vote wisely.
2007-12-16 16:36:22 · answer #8 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
we wont really know until the votes are counted and told
2007-12-16 17:03:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
First they are polls.
Second they are Opinion Polls - run by polling agencies, not actual elections.
2007-12-16 16:34:30 · answer #10 · answered by Sageandscholar 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋