# How are you planning to spend election night? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-planning-to-spend-election-night/266309 "2004-09-27T15:19:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-planning-to-spend-election-night/266309/61 "2004-09-30T01:53:29Z")
> [@DKW](#): > > And I’ll say it right now: POLLS ARE WORTHLESS. News flash, people, there are well over a _quarter billion_ people living in this fine country. You’d have to question several million before you could even _pretend_ to have a decent representative sample. [Not true](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=275411). ---
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-planning-to-spend-election-night/266309/62 "2004-09-30T02:21:27Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > [Not true](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=275411). Well, ahem. The problem isn’t the representative quality of polls per se. It’s if the representative sample actually matches the one we’ve had for three elections running now. If it does not in some polls, and does in others, something seems a tad bit odd. But to tell the truth, that’s kinda OT for this thread, and I don’t know how picky the mods are about that sort of thing round these here parts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-planning-to-spend-election-night/266309.md?page=3)