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//Select Our Data//

So why do we do polls? Frankly, because it is too difficult, time consuming and expensive to check in with everybody or everything about what we want to know. By using polls we make an educated guess, a generalization, by looking at a portion of the population.

There are lots of good sites that have national and local polls. //Real Clear Politics// is a site that contains many different polls that are run by several different organizations. For this project, you will select three polls from the “Obama (D) vs. McCain (R)” section of http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/. Select one national poll and two polls about the two swing states you selected. Some of these polls contain many questions. See if there are questions about the two issues that you previously selected.