The poll also highlights an ongoing issue for the Democratic Party in that Harris is considered less popular among voters than President Joe Biden.

The poll also highlights an ongoing issue for the Democratic Party in that Harris is considered less popular among voters than President Joe Biden.

  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
    27·
    4 months ago

    A thousand voters is actually a perfectly good statistical sampling for the US population.

    What matters is that

    • the daily Mail isn’t overly credible
    • they don’t mention how the thousand voters were selected.

    A thousand people is enough to get you into single digit margin of error for a population the size of the US. If you find them by dialing random landlines, or mailing surveys to people with a voter history, your sample biases towards the demographic that still has landlines or that’s willing to take the time to fill out a paper survey.