Today's Media polling is largely designed to DRIVE the opinion of low-info voters to leftists, not to measure it.
the results were not a surprise to the citizens, only the experts. :)
The rats-UK edition probably had horrid internal polling and used that to push the media machine even harder.
That’s the way it looks to me.
“push-polls” ... we know all about that.
Ahh, but the point of the inquiry is to determine why the poll failed to manipulate the public.
I guess that former Lib-Dem peer is now going to eat a hat. I would recommend a nice top hat.
Is that a statement about the bad polling, or a statement about who he wanted to win?
If I remember right there was a large number of undecideds in the polling. The prospect of a Labour-SNP coalition scared the crap out of them and they went Tory.
It’s the same thing they do here. Project what they want and try to discourage us. Simply vote and ignore them.
Like in Israel - another bunch of lefty pollsters whose beebers got stunned by a come-from behind right wing party victory.
They never saw the Tory majority coming. The raw vote totals late into the morning laughed in their face!
Exactly right. It has now failed big time in the US Mid Terms, The Israeli elections and the UK.
It is more social engineering than a scientific process. Pollsters have developed a "special sauce process" that they apply to the raw results to skew the numbers to meet their expectations.
This only makes me skeptical of all polls now.
This is why conservatives lie to pollsters:
Rhys Morgan @rhysmorgan. Genuinely one of the most hideous electoral results I’ve seen. F**k Tory scum. Tory voters, you have blood on your hands.
I would certainly hope that ANYONE asking me who I was going to vote for AND more exactly, who I did vote for are not going to use my answer for anything ‘official’.
Today's Media polling is largely designed to DRIVE the opinion of low-info voters to leftists, not to measure it.What you wrote is undoubtedly correct.
The other cause of inaccurate polling arises from the incessant haranguing from leftist media attempting to convince people there is a politically correct way to think and act. I believe many voters respond to a pollster with answers in line with a conventional meme pushed by leftist media, especially if the poll is not anonymous, but vote differently in the privacy of the voting booth.
As with global warming, reality wins — in the end.
Its chief executive Damian Lyons said he would "always regret" the decision but would not be carrying out an internal review of his methodology..
Hah! Turns out it wasn't the methodology after all. If there was bias, it wasn't mathematical. it was the pollster leadership.
Remember how Jimmy Carter had such a big lead in 1980 polls.
When it comes to poll paper I like Northern better than Charmin.