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France does not deserve to be in World Cup - poll
Nov 22nd, 2009 - ESPN
PARIS, Nov 22 - Most people in France do not thinktheir soccer team deserves to be in the 2010 World Cup and did not approve of Thierry Henry's handball that helped secure afinals place...
New poll says Labour has closed the gap on Tories
Nov 21st, 2009 - The Independent
The Prime Minister's attempts to stage a fightback in the run-up to the general election were boosted last night after a new opinion poll suggested that Labour had closed the gap on the Conservatives to just six percentage points.
us divided on troop increase in Afghanistan - poll
Nov 18th, 2009 - Reuters
WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - A majority of Americans expressed confidence U.S. President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan strategy will succeed, but they are divided over how many more U.S...
Public divided on troop increase in Afghanistan: poll
Nov 17th, 2009 - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Americans expressed confidence U.S. President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan strategy will succeed, but they are divided over how many more U.S...
More than half of voters would be unhappy if Labour wins next general election ...
Nov 17th, 2009 - Telegraph
Voters delivered a small boost to Labour in the latest opinion poll, which cut the Tories lead by four points to 12 – from 41 per cent to 29 per cent. Labour gained two points while the Conservatives dropped two. However...

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Fox News Opinion Poll
President Obama's approval ratings broken down by political parties
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Opinion Polls: Getting the results you want
...is easy. Think about this the next time an opinion poll is trumpteted as a real gauge of public opinion. "Opinion polls are not designed to measure public opinion, they're designed to shape it." Peter Hitchens
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NDA slightly ahead of UPA: Opinion poll
The Bharatiya Janata Party led NDA will win 187 seats compared to Congress led UPA that is likely to capture 178 seats, according to an opinion poll.
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Constructing Public Opinion
www.mediaed.org The media regularly use public opinion polls in their reporting of important news stories. But how exactly do they report them and to what end? In this insightful and accessible interview, Professor Justin Lewis ...

Opinion Poll from WikiPedia:

An opinion poll is a survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals.

The first known example of an opinion poll was a local straw poll conducted by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian in 1824, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States Presidency. Such straw votes—unweighted and unscientific— gradually became more popular, but they remained local, usually city-wide phenomena. In 1916, the Literary Digest embarked on a national survey (partly as a circulation-raising exercise) and correctly predicted Woodrow Wilson's election as president. Mailing out millions of postcards and simply counting the returns, the Digest correctly called the following four presidential elections.