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Assignment:
Questions:
1. How do polls in presidential elections (in particular) affect fundraising, how a candidate will be reported by the media and their role in a presidential debate?
2. What is sampling and how has it changed over the years?
3. Why is it important for the population of a poll to be clearly specified?
4. Explain the cell phone challenge. Have you ever been called?
5. After reading refusals and nonresponse, why do you think people refuse or do not respond? Is there anything that can be done to encourage participation?
6. What are the pros and cons of Internet polls?
7. What methods are employed to increase participation in Internet polls?
8. What are the consequences of predicting elections?
9. Why does the media rely on preelection polls?
10. Historically, the poor and less educated are the least likely to vote, why do you think this is so?
11. Why do you think (according to the chapter) Democrats are more willing to cooperate with exit pollsters than are Republicans?