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3. About the poll ---> The unscientific post-debate poll is the second...........
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 12:45 PM
Sep 2016

Take it with a grain of salt. Lots of work to do in OHIO.



http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2016/09/hillary_clintons_lead_in_cuyah_1.html


About the poll

The unscientific post-debate poll is the second under a new partnership by the Community Research Institute at Baldwin Wallace and cleveland.com.

Unlike scientific polls conducted previously by BW, this poll did not incorporate a random sampling to gather responses. Instead, the poll relied on cleveland.com readers to complete a series of questions. This allowed a quicker response to Monday's debate but does not allow for the calculation of a margin of error.

Steps were taken to make this polling method more reliable than typical instant online polls.

Only registered likely voters were included in the results. Adjustments were made to the polling samples and results to reflect Cuyahoga County's race, gender and age makeup -- a common technique in scientific polling. And people could not repeatedly fill out the survey.............................

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