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When OPEC met at the end of last month and decided to expand its production quota by 2.5 million barrels a day, the announcement was front-page news, but the contrast with OPEC meetings of two decades ago could not have been sharper.
In order to overcome socioeconomic bias, Harris is using what is known as "quota sampling," which ensures that the poll's respondents are an accurate reflection of the population's demographics.
You only have to imagine a state policy applying the high-school quota system to, say, basketball scholarships--and explicitly being praised by state officials as a way to increase the number of white basketball players--to realize how empty the claims are that this arrangement avoids the alleged evil of racial preference.
But most estimates suggest that OPEC countries are pumping out 28 million barrels a day already--the quota increase is designed mainly to allow to bring its share of the world market more in sync with its enormous capacity.
Do you want to be the politician who tries to take away a neighborhood high school's traditional X percent quota?