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To: OldWhammerJammer

the only test of polls, or any other predictive attempt, is how it matches the actual outcome.

The people on FR who are excoriating the ‘MSM’ polls would be praising them to the stars if they showed Trump winning handily. Not that most polls aren’t BS, but they aren’t actual attempts at prediction so much as psy-ops.

With polls, it’s not the number of the responses as much as the QUALITY of the responses- any response without demographical data for age, income, sex, religion and race correlated is just some random person on the internet clicking a box.


20 posted on 10/14/2016 12:26:38 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: RedStateRocker
Yes, if Trump was winning handily they would be praised because we know that the pollsters don't want that to happen.

So, the polls keep getting 'fixed' to make sure Trump doesn't pull ahead.

41 posted on 10/14/2016 1:30:01 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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