A Poll is a Snapshot of the Electorate

In an earlier post, I talked about how I got into polling for local elections, and gave a ;ist of key points about polls that local candidates should know. This is the first of several posts in which I will elaborate on that list. (Note: In all my posts on polling, I assume that the voters polled are random se;ections from the target universe.)

A poll is a snapshot of the electorate at a given point in time; it is not, by itself, a way to predict the outcome of an election. An experie3nced pol...