You can still experience this with football matches, election nights and other important events.
(Just the name and license number need to match, state election officials say).
For countries - such as Finland, Bulgaria and Slovenia - where IDEA turnout data doesn't match national election commissions' figures, we have used the latter.
These results, if confirmed, would broadly match pre-election polls by Latino Decisions, NBC, Univision, Telemundo and the Washington Post.
If his subgroup approval eventually matches his election margins, then he'll start to show negative numbers among independents and southerners.
The endorsement leader has matched the election winner in the seven other elections, but that may be because before 1992 it always favored the G.O.P., and those years happened to see a string of Republican presidents.
The football matches and election campaigns of 2014 will be hard-fought, but Brazil's national squad and its president both begin the year as the competitors to beat.
Mr. Alexander, the clerk, considered the totality of it all, the geopolitical chess match, the election-year politics, Middle Eastern history, dead marines, lonely wives, Dear John e-mail messages, the former grocery clerk who now wears a uniform and holds the point and security barricades on the Iraqi highway, the unclaimed fatigues.
The Current Population Survey (CPS), which most would agree is far better at picking up changes in the electorate and matching pre-election surveys, shows a drop of only 1.2pt, from 23.7% in 2008 to 22.5% to 2010.
The general election match between Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney is opening with evidence that economic conditions are providing ammunition for both candidates.
