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Originally Posted by bhunter
True, but it is also in the interest of the pollster to be as accurate as possible. One can check accuracy, at least in some polls, by checking the correlation between the poll and the actual result of the event presumed to be measured by the poll. AFAIK, the poll questions and methodology are available for perusal. There is enough randomness between pollsters to account for different results without the attribution of misleading intent.
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The question is do the poll results affect the eventual outcome?