Polls Apart
Several opinion poll organizations are suspected of taking orders for polls and doing deals with political parties. This not only affects their reputations, it could damage democracy.
January 20, 2009
THERE is something strange about the recent crop of opinion polls. Several polling organizations—the Indonesian Survey Institute, the Reform Institute and Cirus Surveyor Group—found the Democrat Party to be in top position over the last three months. Other organizations, the Indonesian Survey Circle and the National Survey Institute, have announced different results: that the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is in the lead.
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