Do you want the tech suit back for SCY?

I am not sure of the statistics on this, but for any poll to be statistically valid/significant, it would need to have what, 60% of the given population? If that was the case, there would be no firms doing any political polling whatsoever. And our elections, which rarely get even half the voters to participate, would also be meaningless. If the poll respondents are selected randomly, you don't need all that many to get a confidence interval of only a couple of percent. What the USMS discussion forum polls lack is that random selection process, and there is no way to get that in this venue.

I am not sure of the statistics on this, but for any poll to be statistically valid/significant, it would need to have what, 60% of the given population? If that was the case, there would be no firms doing any political polling whatsoever. And our elections, which rarely get even half the voters to participate, would also be meaningless. If the poll respondents are selected randomly, you don't need all that many to get a confidence interval of only a couple of percent. What the USMS discussion forum polls lack is that random selection process, and there is no way to get that in this venue.