In 2007, authorities in the Basque country put forward plans to hold a referendum on "self-determination", widely interpreted as a poll on the region's right to secede from Spain.
Scalia interpreted a lot.
Although the Fifteenth Amendment was never interpreted to prohibit poll taxes, in 1962 the Twenty-fourth Amendment was adopted banning poll taxes in federal elections, and in 1966 the Supreme Court ruled in Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (1966) that state poll taxes violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
So much so that Luis Gutiérrez, a Democratic Congress member for Chicago who is of Puerto Rican descent, dared to interpret the poll results as a solid indicator that "Donald Trump is going to lose Florida and lose the electoral college, and Puerto Ricans in particular will be a huge part of Hillary Clinton's victory".
"While the newspaper was entitled to interpret the poll's findings, taken in its entirety, the coverage presented as a fact that the poll showed that one in five British Muslims had sympathy for those who left to join Isis and for Isis itself," Ipso said.
Today, at a news conference in Orangeburg, Mr. Bush reiterated his vow to fire anyone affiliated with his campaign who is making calls that could be interpreted as push-polls.
So it interprets their new poll in Colorado, which gives Obama a 3-point advantage (46percentto43percentcent) as if it had shown just a 1-point Obama edge (45percentto44percentcent).
Their share went from 3%to8%8%, in a poll whose results were interpreted, by every paper apart from the Evening Standard, as testament to the fact that voters hate everybody (to put that in Westminster terms, it's a "war of the weak").
Generally the Pew poll has been interpreted as an endorsement of a right-wing, small government agenda.
There are no hard-and-fast rules for interpreting poll results, since there are many possible sources of bias and error.
