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A voter ranks or rates a candidate they dislike – a "lesser evil" – higher in the hope of getting them elected, thus preventing an even worse candidate from being elected. This type of strategic voting includes the first-past-the-post strategy of voting for the lesser of two evils, as well as the more general favorite betrayal strategy.
According to Silver's analysis, Strategic Vision's data displayed statistical anomalies that were inconsistent with random polling. Later, he uncovered indirect evidence that Strategic Vision may have gone as far as to fabricate the results of a citizenship survey taken by Oklahoma high school students, which led him to denounce Strategic ...
Strategic approval differs from ranked voting (aka preferential voting) methods where voters are generally forced to reverse the preference order of two options, which if done on a larger scale can cause an unpopular candidate to win. Strategic approval, with more than two options, involves the voter changing their approval threshold.
Plurality voting is the most common voting system, and has been in widespread use since the earliest democracies.As plurality voting has exhibited weaknesses from its start, especially as soon as a third party joins the race, some individuals turned to transferable votes (facilitated by contingent ranked ballots) to reduce the incidence of wasted votes and unrepresentative election results.
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll (although strictly a poll is an actual election), is a human research 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 ...
Polling & Research [216] May 1-May 6, 2008 Hillary Clinton: 49% John McCain 38% Quinnipiac University [217] April 23-April 29, 2008 Hillary Clinton: 51% John McCain 37% Rasmussen Reports [218] April 24, 2008 Hillary Clinton: 47% John McCain 42% Strategic Vision [219] April 18-April 20, 2008 Hillary Clinton 42% John McCain: 46% Strategic Vision ...
Poll results can be affected by methodology, especially in how they predict who will vote in the next election, and re-weighting answers to compensate for slightly non-random samples. One technique, "weighting on recalled vote" is an attempt to compensate for previous underestimates of votes for Donald Trump by rebalancing the sample based on ...
Political management is a broad and ever evolving field encompassing a number of activities in professional politics.The field includes campaign management and consulting, advertisement creation/purchasing, grassroots politics, opposition research, issue advocacy, lobbying, fundraising, and polling.