Are the Presidential Polls Really Accurate?
Aired September 16, 2000 – 9:35 a.m. ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. MILES O’BRIEN, ANCHOR: Presidential polling, it’s a controversial subject. Lot of people think the polls are biased one way or another. Depends on where you sit in things. The man who keeps track of polls here at CNN for us is Keating Holland. He joins us live now from our Washington bureau to take your phone calls and e-mails. And as it relates to those phone calls, we invite you still to call us at 404-221-1855. We should let you know that is not a toll- free number, but we do think Mr. Holland is well worth it. Keating, thanks again for being with us. KEATING HOLLAND, CNN POLLING DIRECTOR: Good to be here. O’BRIEN: All right. Let’s go right to the e-mail, shall we? A lot of questions about how polls are conducted, how you keep the bias out of them. This one comes from Norman Walker, who is in Farmville, Virginia. “Can you explain exactly how you conduct a pol
