The poll also highlights an ongoing issue for the Democratic Party in that Harris is considered less popular among voters than President Joe Biden.

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    4 months ago

    A thousand voters is actually a perfectly good statistical sampling for the US population.

    What matters is that

    • the daily Mail isn’t overly credible
    • they don’t mention how the thousand voters were selected.

    A thousand people is enough to get you into single digit margin of error for a population the size of the US. If you find them by dialing random landlines, or mailing surveys to people with a voter history, your sample biases towards the demographic that still has landlines or that’s willing to take the time to fill out a paper survey.