In the 2000 presidential election, the polls of upper-middle-class Americans tended to show Bush leading Gore by a landslide.When election night came, the final results were closer than had been predicted, and it turned out that Gore won the popular vote while Bush won the more critical Electoral College vote.One possible problem with the earlier survey results was that they relied primarily on polls of upper-middle-class people.This illustrates the finding that a major problem with surveys is

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This illustrates the problem that survey results may not be predictive of behavior if the sample is not representative of the population which the prediction is to be made. In this case, the surveys relied primarily on upper-middle-class people, which may not be representative of the entire population's views and behaviors.

In the 2000 Presidential Election, the Polls of Upper-Middle-Class Americans