A Consumer's Guide to the Polls
Read the ingredients before you buy.
Updated Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004, at 5:31 PM
Publishes entire questionnaire with results: Yes.
Where: Here. Click to read any survey.
Screens people out based on past failure to vote: Yes.
Raises these questions before asking whom you'd vote for: None.
Presses undecideds to pick a candidate: No.
May weight your vote differently based on your: Race, sex, age, education.
Adjusts results to fit expected party shares of electorate:No.
Time (Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas Inc.)
Publishes entire questionnaire with results: Yes.
Where: Here. Click any link in the "archive" column on the left to get the summary page for a previous poll. Then click the link at the bottom to "survey questionnaire."
Screens people out based on past failure to vote: Yes.
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Illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty.