For a typical election sample of 1,000, the error rate is plus or minus three percentage points for each candidate, meaning that a 50-50 racoulduld actually differ by 53 to 47.
For the 2001 UK general election, sampling veterans Coldcut sliced and diced speeches from several politicians in the style of Steinski and satirical cut-up duo Cassetteboy, turning them into dancefloor MCs.
The last pre-election samples (polling here ended, as the law requires, a week before the vote) gave Mr. Putin as much as 57percentt of the backing among people who said they planned to vote in Sunday's election.
But several polling companies have undertaken "recontact" surveys with the voters from their final pre-election samples to look for such signs of late movement and, Sturgis says, "these exercises have not, in general, pointed to any obvious explanations".
The Sturgis review commissioned by the British Polling Council in the aftermath of the general election identified sampling as the biggest cause of the failure to predict the eventual result.
Whether it has been featured in sport highlights, the 2010 UK General Election or sampled by Rihanna, it is no doubt a good track.
SCIENCE TIMES, PAGE F1 New Indonesian President A former general who has promised to uphold civilian rule appears to have easily defeated President Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia's presidential election, a sampling of votes indicates.
Election pollsters sample only a minuscule portion of the electorate, not uncommonly something on the order of a couple of thousand people out of the more than two hundred million Americans who are eligible to vote.
By Clinton/Gore logic, we needn't hold elections; statistical sampling — polling — will suffice.
Because of the attrition that arises due to the use of an extra panel wave, and the restriction of the sample to respondents with an incumbent MP re-running in 2010 who also voted in the election, our overall sample size is here reduced to 1134.
The BBC picked up the spooky instrumental "Intro" for its coverage of the general election, and Rihanna sampled it for her dance tune "Drunk on Love".
