The employees who took part in the poll worked an average of just under 20 hours a week and were most likely to be aged between 18 and 24 or over 55.
HuffPost's model offers advantages over some others, however, in terms of understanding how the polls work.
He's got a tab open with polls analysis site FiveThirtyEight loaded up, even though he doesn't really know how the polls work.
How does the poll tracker work?
The N.R.A. was doing a push poll, working the wilds of southwestern Colorado by phone.
The way tracking polls work is to replace the oldest day of interviews with fresh interviews conducted the previous day.
An Obama victory will confirm that bloggers and talk shows hosts were right all along because the skewed polls worked (as the conspiracy intended) and drained Republican enthusiasm.
Perhaps 90 or 95 percent of the time, taking a simple average of the polls will work just about as well as the more complicated FiveThirtyEight method.
Who cares about points and badges if the distance to the polls, long work hours and carpooling kids keeps you from voting?
I was planning to hit the polls after work at the school near my home; what I wasn't expecting was overhearing a number of homeless people at Bethesda Cares' Drop-In Center who were planning to vote, too.
