12
Oct
2008
State of the Polls
A great resource from Pollster that we’ve seen a lot in class. You can adjust it, and play with the settings. Pretty cool!
The red and blue lines stand for the ‘trend’ over time of the polls for John McCain or Barack Obama. The small dots reflect individual polls conducted by various organizations through various methods. Pollster puts all the data from the individual polls to create a ‘trend’ for each candidate.
Because each poll can have smaller errors, biases, or fundamental flaws, I find that looking at the trends is a much more efficient way to study which way the race is headed towards.
Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, polling, polling trends, Pollster, sampling errors
This entry was posted on Sunday, October 12th, 2008 at 12:26 pm by mrosman and is filed under Current Events, Electoral Process. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
even though its a little confusing, its still pretty interesting to see where they are wit different polls