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midnight armadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-11 12:05 AM
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Where do poll aggregators get their data?
This is just driven by my curiosity. This list for example from TPM is huge:
http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/pollsters
Same for Real Clear Politics. They have SO many polls:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

Do these places just subscribe to tons of polling organizations or are there companies that do this for a living?
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