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Ignorance
"he WSJ/MSNBC poll oversampled African Americans. Polls are supposed to represent population percentages of national demographics, yet this poll sampled twice as much of african-americans as populate the US. Since they are going for Obama 9 out of 10, no wonder the stats are skewed."
What an ignorant comment. This exhibits the problem with people commenting when they don't know anything.
The sample size is one thing. Of course they over-sampled blacks. HOWEVER, THE SAMPLING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW THEY USE THE INFORMATION.
Every poll in the WORLD, EVERY SINGLE ONE, uses sampling weights to weight or express the importance of the value from each individual. That's what they did here, I'm sure.