i appreciate you going on. i feel there s an elephant in the room here. i hope you forgive me. we cover politics on the show, and anybody covering politics this fall spent time talking about gallup polls and the presidential race and you had mitt romney up through to laexz day and took heat over that. i wonder going forward, have you taken any steps or are you planning to take any steps sort of in response to what happened in your polls this year? oh, yeah. we re constantly reviewing what we do when it comes to election polling, and actually our final polling results were fairly close within the margin of errors with most other polls where the popular vote would be. we re constantly review election polling which is a complex animal as you know. we are reviewing procedures in what we do. if there s something we should tweak or change before the next election rolls around, we ll certainly do it. thanks, frank. straight ahead, which lawmakers
polls. to fight the appearance of failure, many romney defenders have been attacking the polling industry. others have been complaining that most news organizations are packing their results with democrats just to make obama look good. now, that conspiracy theory is absu absurd. these same polls have produced years of results that make republicans look good too. but if you removed partisan paranoia, this debate can help reveal a misperception about polls. politicos and journalists alike like polls because they show a snapshot and show a random sample to represent the entire population. do americans think the economy is improving? a poll takes a sample of americans to find out. that scientific approach runs into a brick wall for election polling. that s because we never know exactly who s going to vote. so even if the results of a polling sample are solid, they
did we overstate the case? sometimes election polling can be off. this is a district obama won by 11 points. the last republican congressman from this district came in the 1920s. and to bring the force to put a half million dollars into a seat in new york, even if they win it. the poll.all showing the republican winning. i think it s likely to happen. if it does happen it will unsettle a lot of democrats who say my district is a will the more competitive than new york city. megyn: we ll interview tim pawlenty in a couple minutes. romney and perry are battling it out. it s getting ugly with accusations about what s been said about social security. does this kind of back and