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A thousand voters is actually a perfectly good statistical sampling for the US population.
What matters is that
- the daily Mail isn’t overly credible
- they don’t mention how the thousand voters were selected.
A thousand people is enough to get you into single digit margin of error for a population the size of the US. If you find them by dialing random landlines, or mailing surveys to people with a voter history, your sample biases towards the demographic that still has landlines or that’s willing to take the time to fill out a paper survey.
I’m still just amazed that we’re in a place where one bad debate means we talk about nothing but changing candidates for a week and counting, but dozens of criminal felony convictions is just something we roll with.