They are going to need to get higher in the polls than ninth or 10th, however that happens. Either teams ahead of them need to lose, or the pollsters would need to help them out.
Quotes about pollsters (16 Quotes)
Every ten years, the Census Bureau force a large number of Americans to complete an expensive 'long form,' which was never mentioned in the Constitution. Not only do the Census probers ask name and address, but sex, race, income, property, household furnishings, and dozens of other irrelevant and impertinent questions. For those who refuse to answer, the Census people unlike such pollsters as Roper or Gallup threaten federal prosecution. Head counting is part of the Constitution, but this invasion of privacy is not.
You'd much rather be recognized by the pollsters and the people in the community than not. The thing we have to guard against is living in the past.
I think that the people of Maine aren't going to listen to pollsters and pundits, ... I think they're going to vote their hearts and their convictions.
The Democratic convention on the whole was very well packaged to sell a product. But in this day and age -- with all of the pollsters, researchers and media professionals -- they know how to present a candidate.
The polls have not been complimentary for months. We need to work hard to bring out the voters to make the pollsters eat their polls - and praying at the Wall could not hurt either.
The president's pollsters are telling him that high energy prices and his drill-only energy policy are driving his job approval numbers down. So he's decided to go out and tell Americans what the polls tell him they want to hear. It's just the same old oil guy doing photo ops at solar plants.
I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.
Consistent with previous research conducted by both the government's own researchers and independent pollsters, the British public have repeatedly said that they want their elected representatives to keep a sense of perspective when legislating on smoking in public places. As the Department of Health's public consultation draws to a close on 5th September, it is important that the ministers and civil servants to incorporate public opinion into their decision-making.
The time has come for us to stop paying attention to the pollsters. I will prove the pollsters wrong again.
I would love for them to be the first, but I'm for anybody. If you play a good schedule, as determined both by the opinion pollsters and the computer polls, and you go undefeated, you should have a chance to play at the highest level.
There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
As the final step, pollsters tell us how the public reacted to it, which becomes the agreed version whether the event itself was a flop or a success.
Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
The level of criticism is fairly warranted. So you either do it the right way, which involves a playoff, or you go back to where there was no pretense that there was somebody matched together playing for the national championship. You just played the bowls, and the pollsters ranked 'em however they wanted and we lived with the controversy.
The pollsters tell me it's because of Kyle that we're picked so high. And he's definitely a huge part of that. But we have a strong group this year. One person can't do it all. It certainly helps to have him back, but he knows that baseball is a team sport. And he's on a great team.