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mooreandrew58 posted...

umm no its never done right. as said I never see them polling out here in the country. kind of ignoring an entire population of people that have a different mindset because of the lives they live versus city dwellers. and to think any group is unbiased is being a bit hopeful imo.

http://www.gallup.com/201191/gallup-daily-tracking-work.aspx
From their website:

Gallup interviews U.S. adults aged 18 and older living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia using a dual-frame design, which includes both landline and cellphone numbers. Gallup samples landline and cellphone numbers using random-digit-dial methods. Gallup purchases samples for this study from Survey Sampling International (SSI). Gallup chooses landline respondents at random within each household based on which member had the next birthday. Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and 30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Gallup conducts interviews in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking.

Which means they literally dial random numbers and then ask their questions.

So if you're going to claim that it's bias against people who don't have phones... sure you caught them.

mooreandrew58 posted...

edit: and even if news network is truly unbiased you can't say the same for the reporters I bet, the ones who write the stories. and those who approve the stories. its almost impossible to find any individual who is unbiased and would actually push a story that went against what they are for

The Gallup Poll is third party and not affiliated with any news organization, they just all use it because it's the most accurate.
Even the government uses it.