Veepstakes Polling Method

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Veepstakes Polling Method
By The Associated Press

FROM: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040612/ap_on_el_pr/veepstakes_method&cid=694&ncid=2043
The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on the Democratic nominee for vice president is based on telephone interviews with 788 registered voters from all states except Alaska and Hawaii. The interviews were conducted June 7-9 by Ipsos-Public Affairs.

The results were weighted to represent the population by demographic factors such as age, sex, region and education.

No more than one time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than 3.5 percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all registered voters were polled.

This margin of sampling error is slightly larger for responses of subgroups — 5 percentage points for Democrats, 5.5 percentage points for Republicans.

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