Quotes About Polls

I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.

It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

National polls basically always misinterpret the final outcome or mis-predict the final outcome.

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.

Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

There is no rule or tradition in the BJP to forbid leaders to contest polls after they attain the age of 75.

Exit polls have gone notoriously wrong in the past.

Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.

We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.

History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.

The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.

Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove me wrong. They don't know how to read them; they don't understand the importance of cross tabs within a given poll, and they don't know how to analyze them.

There's a lot of work to be done in the polling world, and a need to continue to rethink how we do what we do. We also need to be more open to the idea that any one input - in this case, polls - may not be the only way to hear what people are saying.

Even with flexible time off to vote, it's still difficult for our people to juggle work, polls, childcare, and other responsibilities.

I don't look at polls. It's about results. And every single time that people have had an opportunity to vote for me, we've been on top.

The polls tell us something, but they don't tell us everything. They don't tell us how people are going to show up on Election Day.

We will accept no corporate PAC money, and we're not going to be driven by the polls.