.S. Fishkin looks to the example of the Channel Four deliberative poll in Britain in May of 1994. The televised deliberative poll intends to overcome issues that Fishkin points to as earlier problems of polling. Fishkin describes the idea of the deliberative opinion poll in which a random sample of the voting population converges on a single site and this group deliberates about political issues with other citizens and political leaders. Fishkin advocates for a deliberative poll over an ordinary opinion poll because it models what the public thinks after thinking more about the political issues. He criticizes televised forums that have been filtered by studios. In the Channel Four example, the selected citizen participants for the weekend
