What are the GOP straw polls?

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What are the GOP straw polls?

Answer 1

A straw poll or straw vote is a vote with nonbinding results: a practice vote. Straw polls provide important interactive dialogue among movements within large groups, reflecting trends like organization and motivation.[1][2] In meetings subject to rules of order, impromptu straw polls often are taken to see if there is enough support for an idea to devote more meeting time to it, and (when not a secret ballot) for the attendees to see who is on which side of a question. Among political bodies, straw polls often are scheduled for events at which many people interested in the polling question can be expected to vote. Sometimes polls conducted without ordinary voting controls in place (i.e., on an honor system, such as in online polls) are also called "straw polls".

The idiom alludes to a straw (thin plant stalk) held up to see in what direction the wind blows, in this case, the wind of group opinion.

Answer 2

Straw polls

Answer 3

That's at most. A national poll typically has a sample of around 1000 people, to get the 95 percent confidence interval down to +/- 3 percent. So in any given day, even now, only about 10,000 people will be called for a poll about the presidential election. Ten thousand people randomly chosen out of 300 million. That's a one in 30,000 chance of being called and completing a survey.

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Straw polls provide important interactive dialogue among movements within large groups, reflecting trends like organization and motivation.

Answer 5

A straw poll or straw vote is a vote with nonbinding results: a practice vote.

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Pulls

Answer 7

have no idea sorry

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not sure