Word: polled
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...good news for Harvard is that everyone, save Dartmouth, will in comparison have a relatively inexperienced roster. But the unanswered question is which one of those teams will step up to the plate this year. Here is the official forecast, according to the preseason coaches' poll...
...this past week alone, the national Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll had Bush up by 13 points, down by 1 point, up by 11 points and now up by 3 points...
Experts attribute the disparities to the large number of polling agencies, each of which uses different techniques and voter samples. The basic methods used by the agencies are standard, but there are variables: what questions are asked, when the poll is conducted and how many people are surveyed...
Maxine Isaacs, lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), says pollsters and news agencies have been careless and irresponsible this year in processing poll data...
...chance, 1 out of 20 polls will be off the mark, and we make a big deal out of that one poll," he says...