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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
'Oversampling' isn't a perjorative, it's a term of art.
If you believe more Democrats will vote than Republicans, you include more of them in your sample. You have therefore oversampled Democrats. Oversampling is nothing more than a relative term; how much of one you have over the other taking a 50/50 baseline.
What the pollsters did was not a slant, it was a projection.
Seems pretty simple to me.
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Pollsters don't choose the number of Democrats or Republicans to include in their sample. That is a fluid, outcome variable just like which candidate people support.
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