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Results to Congress...
The Pollit Bureau is in the process of gathering the appropriate data to send a 4 part poll summary to each and every member of the US Congress. The 4 parts will consist of the results of the weekly dozen polls for the next 4 weeks. The topics of the next weekly polls will be illegal immigration, national defense, education, and the US economy. We encourage all to participate in this poll every week.
The History of Opinion Polls in the US (Part 1)
Although it is difficult to trace the roots of the first opinion poll taken in the United States, one of the first documented occurences was the poll conducted by the newspapers the "Harrisburg Pennsylvanian" and the Raleigh Star in connection with the 1824 presidential election. In July of 1824, the Pennsylvanian reported that Andrew Jackson had received 335 votes and John Quincy Adams having received 169 votes, in a straw poll it had conducted. In August of 1824, the Raliegh reported that Jackson was the favorite to win by a wide majority due to results it had obtained of polling political meetings in North Carolina. Although Andrew Jackson did not win the presidency in 1824, the polls were accurate in the geographical areas in which they were conducted. The age of election polling had begun.
Staw polls, and opinion polls continued to be conducted in the 1800's but were generally defined to the geographical area near the newspaper conducting the poll. This normally meant a city-wide poll. In 1915, the Literary Digest conducted a national survey and correctly predicted the election of Woodrow Wilson as president. The Literary Digest conducted the poll by mailing out millions of postcards and tabulating the ones returned. They continued to do this and correctly predicted the next four presidential winners. The Literary Digest was a general interest magazine and was published weekly by Funk & Wagnalls. (To be continued.....)
Reference:
Opinion poll.(2010, April 25) In Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opinion_poll&oldid=358223015
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