But even by these standards, this contest for Missouri's 11 electoral votes is looking like a very close call, polls suggest.
But Rickie Fowler, a colorful 21-year-old PGA Tour rookie who was the final choice, was chosen after some internal debate and a call polling the rest of the team.
We call polling technology SPEIK (rhymes with speak), for Speed Polling to Enhance Input and Knowledge.
Ever since Gallup, two things have been called polls: surveys of opinions and forecasts of election results.
Letters, calls, polls and conversations with voters around the state all confirmed to him that opinion has "shifted quite substantially" toward his point of view.
The Republican committee paid out $22 million in September alone to pay for ground-game activities in battleground states, including staffing, phone calls, polling, targeting, voter registration efforts, and other data efforts.
Saturday's events have prompted some analysts to say that the government may now opt to refrain from calling polls any time soon, because the authorities' handling of the rally could damage support for Mr. Najib.
The Alliance, as it was sometimes called, polled 25 percent of the popular vote in the 1983 general election, raising speculation that it might break the "two-party mold" of British politics.
One approach, which is called polling, periodically sends HTTP requests to the server using AJAX calls.
The absence of horns, called polled phenotype, is the favored trait in modern cattle husbandry.
