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Section sizes

Section size for Nationwide opinion polling for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries (31 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	1,216	1,216
Background	5,135	5,135
Polling aggregation	11,648	11,648
2020	185	55,233
April–August 2020	11,784	11,784
March 2020	12,419	12,419
February 2020	16,574	16,574
January 2020	14,271	14,271
2019	185	152,705
December 2019	14,367	14,367
November 2019	12,496	12,496
October 2019	19,018	19,018
September 2019	18,752	18,752
August 2019	17,339	17,339
July 2019	17,137	17,137
April–June 2019	35,316	35,316
March 2019	8,348	8,348
January–February 2019	9,747	9,747
Before 2019	19	9,313
October–December 2018	2,693	2,693
Before October 2018	6,601	6,601
Polls including Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama	13,667	13,667
Head-to-head polls	18,468	18,468
Favorability ratings	511	109,272
From February 2020 to April 2020	12,681	12,681
From October 2019 to January 2020	31,587	31,587
Before October 2019	64,493	64,493
See also	480	480
Notes	104	104
References	28	28
External links	641	641
Total	377,910	377,910

Tulsi[edit]

Big thanks to the people who contributed to the graph near the top of the page, but don't you guys think we should include the data for Tusli? I know she scores low, but the fact that she is one of only 3 people still in the race, has to count for something, right? Nate Hooper (talk) 21:59, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. With only three candidates in the race, it makes sense that her polling average should be in the graph. --Comment by Selfie City (talk about my contributions) 15:54, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It’s Tulsi, and not Tusli, though, by the way :) --Comment by Selfie City (talk about my contributions) 15:54, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done (using data from Melencron's graph up to July, and polling aggregates from then on). Others line still needs to be updated. Chessrat ^{(talk, contributions)} 14:42, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Subsamples and Favourability[edit]

Certain polls like YouGov/Economist regularly put out questions for candidate favourability and then have democratic primary subsamples we could theoretically use. I tend to be a bit hesitant about using these in general unless there is a large subsample (say, n=1000+), respected trackers like 538 use them, or if their use is already agreed for the page in question. However, not many aggregates besides wikipedia are tracking favourability anyway, and we appear to have started using subsamples.

Is this ok? If not, I will remove the Fox News favourability rating. If nobody minds, I'll get around to adding some of these subsamples in the days to come.

—PutItOnAMap (talk) 4:01, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Archiving[edit]

Is there a reason why only 10% of the links have Internet Archive mirrors attatched to them? I see the Archive Bot has been active here a number of times, so why don't all links have the webarchive template? Having a bunch of raw pdfs, some linked via Google Drive in here seems odd. (I assume the URLs all probably are already in the Archive, but not linked here. Would converting the raw URLs to normal references work better?) jonas (talk) 07:55, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]