Mike Huckabee Quotes

Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

You can't depend on polls.

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

Polls are not the instruments of the mob. They offer the prospect of leadership wedded to a finely calibrated measurement of opinion.

It would be just like him to wait for some expression of public opinion instead of giving direction to that public opinion.

Surveys give us a way of finding out what people across the country are thinking.

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

I don't put a lot of stock into polls.

I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

The bigger a data set that you have, the more polls, the more surveys that you have that people undertake, the more accurate your models are going to be. That's just a fact of data science.

Banning pre-poll surveys is certainly no answer in today's world. Sensitising the public and the media as to the good, bad, and desirable aspects of survey research is more sensible than that.

I don't put too much stock in polls.

I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

I wouldn't place much stock in numbers. I don't believe that they reflect Putin's true popularity. Just think about how the pollsters proceed. They call people and they ask them questions on the street. In today's Russia, it takes a lot of courage to tell a stranger something critical about the head of the Kremlin. And yet more than 20 percent do so nonetheless.