


The place where voters cast their ballots. Heads; individuals; persons singly considered.

An objection to a particular juror is called a challenge to the poll, as distinguished from a challenge to the array or panel, which is opposition to the jury as an entity, based on a universal defect among the jurors.

POLLS. The place where electors cast in their votes.

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This example illustrates one of the most common mistakes people make in reading polls: thinking of the percentages as precise points, when they're actually more like fuzzy blobs.
Eisinger's argument, which is well supported by archival and interview evidence, is that the rise of private presidential polls emerged from the complex interaction among a common motivation shared by each president (autonomy), the technology of polling itself, and the idiosyncrasies of the individual presidents and their pollsters (pp.
OSU, which got 235 points in the poll, was one point behind No.
If we Americans continue to allow ourselves to be influenced by polls, we might as well tear up the Constitution, abolish Congress, and ask a pollster to discover what we should do about everything.
Polls among paper industry professionals are even more interesting to me since part of my job is to understand what is happening to this industry and how people feel about it.
Bogart relates anecdotes of desperately trying to reassure his paymasters at Esso Brazil of the value of the polls he was conducting for them on the very day that America's major pollsters miscalled the Truman-Dewey presidential contest in 1948; of Croatian fascists-turned-pollsters enthusiastically joining in on old partisan songs at a Yugoslavian conference; and of the chairman of Revlon interrupting an annual sales meeting to rebuke his 12-year-old son for not doing his homework.
In fact, voters who feel a strong bond with any political party are more likely to go to the polls than those who don't.
and demanding, "What are you doing here?" She saw them stop one elderly man after he left the polls and order him to "assume the position." Asked what he was doing, he tried to explain he had just voted (he was, in fact, wearing a button that said "I voted").
News organizations subjected their audiences to a relentless barrage of polls during the campaign.