Poll Methodology

Polls on this platform are voluntary, opt-in sentiment surveys. Any visitor to a race page can participate. There is no invitation, no random selection, and no attempt to build a statistically representative sample of any population.

These are not scientific probability polls. They are a way for engaged visitors — people who sought out this race — to express their preferences and see how others feel.

Respondents self-select. Anyone who finds a race page through search, a shared link, social media, or direct navigation can vote. We do not recruit participants, weight responses by demographics, or apply any sampling correction.

This means results can be influenced by which communities share a link, where traffic comes from, and when during a news cycle a race receives attention.

Results reflect the preferences of visitors who chose to participate on this platform — not a cross-section of all voters or the general public. A candidate leading in our poll may or may not be leading in the actual race.

Think of results as a directional signal of sentiment among engaged, self-selected participants. Do not use them to predict election outcomes or infer the views of any broader group.

We take reasonable steps to reduce manipulation and improve the reliability of results:

• Session-based deduplication — each browser session can submit one vote per poll, preventing the most common form of repeat voting
• Rate limiting — submission requests are rate-limited per IP address to slow automated abuse
• Suspicious response flagging — responses that match known abuse patterns are automatically flagged and reviewed by moderators before they affect displayed counts

These measures reduce obvious manipulation but do not eliminate it. Coordinated campaigns can still affect results, and we make no guarantee that displayed results are free from organized participation efforts.

Use our poll results as one informal data point among many. They can tell you which candidate resonates with people motivated enough to seek out this page. They cannot tell you who will win an election.

For predictive election data, consult sources that use scientific sampling methodology, such as media polling organizations, university polling centers, or aggregators like FiveThirtyEight or RealClearPolitics.