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Originally Posted by Carth

2,061 adults

That number (or very close to it) keeps cropping up . . do you think these 'polling' companies all have the same list of 'random' people?

So how many would you poll?

Spoiler: 

A sample size near 2,000 yields a tiny margin of error of ~2.16%, making it much easier to detect small shifts or close races (e.g., a 51% vs 49% split) that a 1,000-person survey (MOE ±3.1%) might miss. It hits the optimal threshold where adding more respondents costs significantly more time and money without offering much added precision