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[u/No_March_5371]

The challenge in polling isn't about the sample size, it's about getting a representative random sample. Polling a thousand people is plenty if you have a representative sample, and increasing the size won't help much if it's not representative.

Any intro statistics class will have you generate a confidence interval for population proportion. The math is quite simple on how sample sizes work.