Outlook “Gallup’s October Surprise” By Richard Morin Thesis: The author is saying that the gallup polls are not as accurate as people would like them to be, and as they should be. o The polls changing from Sept. 30 through Oct.9 raised many eyebrows, mainly because of the complete switch from Gore being ahead to Bush behind then later Bush was ahead and Gore was trailing. o October 2nd when Gallup reported the race a …showed first 75 words of 467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 467 total…used to attempt snapshots of a dynamic event. No one should take them as seriously as the author of the article does. The change in voters probably had nothing to do with party affiliation. It was probably close to some incredibly important event, like George Bush appearing on Opera. Pollsters should still take polls, providing the results and people can just say “ George Gallup should have been a weather forecaster.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** washington post outlookOctober 15, 2000