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This one is from a collaboration with a nonprofit that gets out the vote, and it does this by sending hundreds of thousands of letters every election in order to remind people and try to motivate them to go to the polls.
We suggested adding the following sentence: "Someone may call you to find out about your experience at the polls."
This sentence makes it feel more observable when you go to the polls, and it increased the effect of the letter by 50 percent.
One of things that's really changed people's relationship with numbers, and even their trust in the media, has been the use of political polls.
I personally have a lot of issues with political polls because I think the role of journalists is actually to report the facts and not attempt to predict them, especially when those predictions can actually damage democracy by signaling to people: don't bother to vote for that guy, he doesn't have a chance.
Based on national elections in the UK, Italy, Israel and of course, the most recent US presidential election, using polls to predict electoral outcomes is about as accurate as using the moon to predict hospital admissions.
Our societies have become really diverse, which makes it difficult for pollsters to get a really nice representative sample of the population for their polls.
The internet polls, statistical models, all the pundits agreeing on a possible outcome for the presidential election.
So they looked at things like Gallup polls about satisfaction in life and what they learned was that if you have access to the internet, your satisfaction goes up.
Eight weeks after they published my cell number, I obtained a press pass for a press conference for the candidate gaining momentum in the polls.
As the polls were closing and it became clear that Trump was going to be our new president, I was devastated.
The second reason I undertook this is because I'm concerned about the rise of fundamentalism, religious fundamentalism, and people who say they take the Bible literally, which is, according to some polls, as high as 45 or 50 percent of America.
Despite the harsh rhetoric and efforts to block immigration, keep refugees out of the country, support for refugees and immigrants in this country, according to polls, has never been higher.
Like polls.
You know, it's always curious to me that in public opinion polls the percentage of Americans who don't know the answer to any given question is always two percent.
Actually we didn't ask them, but when they conducted exit polls in every state, in 37 states, out of the 50, they asked a question, that was pretty direct, about race.
And there were even some polls that were saying she was going to go all the way.
You know they do polls, right?
Pretty much everybody else who does polls.
No one can go to the polls and say that quality of life is going to reduce.
If whoever is in charge of DVD production for Columbia Pictures releases (I believe Columbia released it) takes polls for new releases this gets my vote.
Governments are elected for three year terms, as Reg Whithers said in 1973, the Liberals were determined to continue forcing Labor to the Polls until they were defeated.
While almost impossible to believe, the first man then realizes that the election is being held and he forgot to vote--and runs to the polls before they close.
With all the polls being thrown at me constantly, telling me how popular the "state of things" are with the public today, I really needed to hear IN A BIG WAY that not everyone is buying it.
The element of reincarnation is thought-provoking for those with open minds and welcome for the believers, and polls show there are lots of believers.
In India, policy changes require political consensus within the ruling coalition, labor laws are strongly defended by unions and political parties, and controversial decisions can be challenged on the streets, in the courts, and ultimately at the polls.
When they go to the polls in November, they must consider the candidates’ policies toward climate change.
A New Chance for GreeceATHENS – On September 20, Greek voters will go to the polls – yet again – in a snap election called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
This year, Czechs, Italians, and Germans have been, or will go, to the polls.
Simultaneous, EU-wide polls might then be followed by some four or five years of relative stability (depending on the agreed length of a parliamentary term).
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