Click Here and Play Around!

While you are clicking around, you should be considering and writing down answers to the following questions:

1.  What is the Main Topic of this website? (What is the purpose?)
2.  What are at least 5 things (vocabulary words, concepts, characteristics) you recognize or understand from your reading of chapter 6 and Public Opinion Polls?
3.  Choose one particular State's polling that you are interested in.  Analyze this state's information a little bit more in-depth and write down the results you are seeing. 

• What do they mean?  
• Are these the final results?  
• How much longer until they are final?  
• What could change?  
• Does this state typically vote Republican or Democrat?  
• Do these numbers reflect the typical voting patterns of this state?
• How many candidates are there?
• What are they running for?
• How were these results obtained? (How did the pollsters get their data?)
• Is the sample size big enough?
• Are the results invalid for any reason?
• What is the sampling error?
• Anything else you noticed or is worth mentioning?