MONDALE LEADS REAGAN IN TRIAL HEAT FOR THE PRESIDENCY (polls lie, and have lied for decades)

The Harris Survey ^ | January 24, 1983 | Louis Harris

[Triple]

Lies, politically motivated lies.

[SeekAndFind]

January 24th, 1983 ? Meh. What did the polls show close to the 1984 Presidential election?

[Flick Lives]

Among men, Reagan wins by 52-46 percent; among women, Mondale soars to a 58-37 percent lead. If the election had been held this month, Mondale would owe his victory to the strong anti-Reagan sentiments of women.

37 years later, the MSM is *still* shoveling out the same lies.

[Jim Robinson]

Mondale promises to raise taxes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eowwp6bkpo0

[cgbg]

Sociopaths lie.

Fools believe the lies.

[a fool in paradise]

Election night 1980 Tom Brokaw said that no one saw the Reagan landslide over Carter coming.

[a fool in paradise]

They use polls to push an outcome, not to report the news

[basalt]

worst i ever saw...was for Michigan Governor 1990...last poll the day before the election had Blanchard (D) up 14 points..Engler (R) won by 1.5 the next day...

[Seruzawa]

Oh, yes. I remember well. The polls all had us worried that Reagan was going to lose big time. Then he swept the country. My blinders came off and I now see pollsters as being worse than rabid dogs. And deserving the same cure.

[SunkenCiv]

• Ronald Reagan Beat Jimmy Carter in a Landslide Despite Trailing 6% in Polls?
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[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=Dukakis

[bray]

No Repub has led in the Communist Polls in 50 yrs.

[babble-on]

you’re pissed off about a poll taken 22 months before the election of 1984?

Prozac can help.

[rdl6989]

Maybe this will be the end for polling.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

There are endless examples of polls being wrong, and very few examples of polls being right. Yet, they still operate without any accountability. Confirmation bias in action.

[Kevin C]

January 24th, 1983 ? Meh. What did the polls show close to the 1984 Presidential election?

The same survey had Reagan leading 53%-44% a few weeks before the election:

CAMPAIGN NOTES; Reagan Leads Mondale 53%-44% in Harris Poll

[Triple]

I’m pissed off? Need medication?

I’m Just effectively pointing out that polls are not to be trusted.

Bless your heart.

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[napscoordinator]

January? A year before the election. I’d be interested in knowing October 28, 1980.

[Kriggerel]

They talk about opinion polls in Intro Statistics... Can’t ever free them from sampling bias, PERIOD.

[Triple]

Well, look it up then.

I bet it was wrong, and that it favored Mondale.