Talk:2009 Romanian presidential election

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Opinion polls?

I strongly suggest removing all the opinion polls due to their innacuracy, partisanship and extremely large diferences between them. I also have to underline that many notable Romanian press agencies decided not to publish them anymore for the same reasons. --Eurocopter (talk) 19:07, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Removed opinion polls.

http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-politic-6407228-hotnews-nu-mai-publica-sondaje-opinie-subiect-politic-durata-campaniei-electorale.htm (in english, via google translate http://www.translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotnews.ro%2Fstiri-politic-6407228-hotnews-nu-mai-publica-sondaje-opinie-subiect-politic-durata-campaniei-electorale.htm&sl=auto&tl=en ) ArnoldPlaton (talk) 18:55, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree that we should remove them. Opinion polls everywhere are affected by margins of error, framing biases and often very large differences between them. Polling is never an exact science, and it is for this reason that any polling data should be taken with a grain of salt. However, the ones for this election do not appear to be significantly different to polls for a range of other issues in other countries. Indeed, the latest polls appear to be rather consistent, with the margin between them no more than 2-4%. I have re-included the polls, since it is common practice on Wikipedia that large-scale elections such as this contain an opinion polls section. I have also included a message about their possible unreliability. Ronline ✉ 00:16, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Exit Polls

~~Partial exit polls (12:00 EET) to be added to article - http://www.catavencu.ro/primele_i_exit_poll_i_uri-11320.html~~ - ArnoldPlaton (talk) 12:28, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind - these exitpoll are ilegal and aparently of dubious origin - ArnoldPlaton (talk) 15:41, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

These are official results of exit polls [[1]]

Map

The map does not indicate overseas voters, which may be significant in number. Elekhh (talk) 19:31, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing that. I think the map would loook even better if the circle indicating overseas votesrs would be placed above the circle for Bucharest, while the circle key could migrate on the left side, paired with the other key items. Elekhh (talk) 19:28, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- Shouldn't Bucharest be broken up into the existing sectors, as results are for each sector of Bucharest? - ArnoldPlaton (talk) 18:15, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]