Reply #5: Even well done polls will sometimes give you screwy results [View All]

[Orangepeel]

A margin of error of +/- 3 means that 95% of the time, the sample results will be within 3% points of the population.

That means that 1 out of 20 times, even the most well done poll (which most of these are probably not) can give you off-the-wall results because of random error. Sometimes, you just happen to call a bunch of crazy people in one poll.