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Comment author: ChristianKl 09 May 2015 09:57:05AM 8 points [-]

If you want to improve the work the polling industry does, it would make sense to ask, we they do election polls in the first place.

Are they payed by someone to carry out the poll? If so, who pays? Do they do it to get their name out there and get payed for other polls?

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