"voodoo poll" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: voodoo poll

Part of speech: n.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: “Voodoo polls” is a term coined by Sir Bob Worcester to refer to phone-in, click-on or “press-the-red-button” polls, the sort of thing you see on Sky News, the AOL homepage or in the tabloid press. These polls have no statistical validity whatsover, they do not attempt to be representative of the population, they are entirely self-selecting and they are spectacularly easy to fix by getting partisan supporters to repeatedly ring them. No one should mistake them for a worthwhile indication of public opinion.

Article or document title:
“Voodoo Polling Corner” (URL)

Author:
“Anthony Wells”

(This author is either a pseudonym or is not clearly named in the original source.)

Article, document, publication, web site:
UK Polling Report

Date of publication:
Feb. 24, 2005

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