# The white hood: heritage, not hate! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 21, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-hood-heritage-not-hate/723050 "2015-06-21T02:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 538
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-hood-heritage-not-hate/723050/538 "2015-06-26T22:41:04Z")
It is interesting that **Terr** has absolute confidence in this one poll that supposedly (who knows? It was over the phone) queried 220 black, South Carolina residents. That poll is gospel. And yet, in a thread last month about the UK general election, he had this to say about pollsters: > [@UK General Election May 2015 (Population Share Version)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-general-election-may-2015-population-share-version/716612/675): > > It’s interesting. Pollsters are getting it wrong, and not just somewhat wrong, but spectacularly wrong, everywhere. US, UK, Israel - the three last elections the pollsters were off way outside their margins. > > If they don’t manage to get ahead of this somehow and find a way to poll close to the real results, they are risking of losing credibility completely and no one will pay them anymore. > > On the other hand, it seems that the gambling sites have been a lot more accurate than the pollsters in predicting the final results, in all three of these elections. Maybe that’s the wave of the future… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-white-hood-heritage-not-hate/723050)._