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A straw poll, straw vote, or straw ballot is an ad hoc or unofficial vote. It is used to show the popular opinion on a certain matter, and can be used to help politicians know the majority opinion and help them decide what to say in order to gain votes. Straw polls provide dialogue among movements within large groups.
The community should now decide if the implementation should be continued or not: the straw poll will last two weeks from August 22 – September 4 (UTC). An extensive discussion, including a summary of the major issues and recommendations, can be found and continued at Pending Changes/Closure.
Guam is a territory and not a state, making it ineligible to elect members of the Electoral College. Instead, Guam conducts a non-binding presidential straw poll during the general election. [1] In the 2024 presidential election, incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden initially ran for re-election and became the party's presumptive nominee. [2]
270ToWin shows Harris leading the national polls by 0.7% one week away from Election Day, compared to 1.8% over Trump last week. Previously, the site had Harris over Trump by 2.5% two weeks ago ...
The poll of 853 likely voters, conducted online between Oct. 23-26 and released exactly one week before Election Day, has both candidates at 47%, with 2% of respondents saying they will vote for a ...
The former president fared better than he had in 2021.
Similarly, if a straw poll is inconclusive, or if there is disagreement about whether the question itself was unfair, the poll and its results should simply be ignored. Once responses to a straw poll have begun, even minor changes to the phrasing of the poll are likely to result in an all out battle over whether the poll itself was fair.
Donald Trump was the overwhelming winner of the CPAC 2024 straw poll on Saturday, taking 62 per cent of the vote at the gathering of his loyalists on the Potomac.. The result was a predictable ...