Posted on 07/11/2020 10:17:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Polls even more meaningless now than ever since supporting Trump openly means losing your job. Also, questions like do you support what Trump has done with the virus are completely foolish. Of the 67% how many are mad that closed down at all and how many are mad that he didn’t close down long enough. How many are concerned that he’s too close to Biden on the issue. Absolute nonsense.
It’s actually the perception. Anyone who was paying attention in 2016 had the impression that Trump had no chance. Just like now. If you drill down there might be information to be learned but people care about the headlines and now as then Trump has no path to Victory
‘Anyone who was paying attention in 2016 had the impression that Trump had no chance. Just like now.’
2016 is not now, however; no electorate stays the same for four years...that is something people tend to forget; many voters have died since 2016, and many first time presidential voters are coming on board, to do what we have no way of knowing...
roundabout way of saying, polls will mean something in October, not before...
If they were really faulty polls then how do you explain Hillary running today for re-election?========
As the Ugliest Crone in Chappaqua, NY, that is. She's far ahead, by the way. Who needs to be POTUS when you have that support?
A little of that is true but I cannot state that I can trust the October polls, either. The leftists will still be the ones oversampling--they just won't release the true facts about that.
I can have a poll and tell people I sampled 45% Leaning GOP and 20% Sure They Will Vote Dem---and it's a lie. How does anyone know? We have no equivalent of the FDA sampling food and finding bacteria. They don't present boxes of interview records to someone to verify it.
Also, "sure they will vote" is only a prediction. Something good may be on Netflix at the dorm lounge and the students will stay for the party and not vote----hopefully.
CLINTON OVER TRUMP BY 12
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Oh yeah, I needed a laugh...
Oversampled dems to r’s by 20% likely, and no conservatives will answer a poll...
Today’s polls are based on the book “How to Lie with Statistics”.
Fewer and fewer people have a landline at home, they have cut the cord and use their cell phone as their primary phone. Telemarkers and scammers continually call so more and more people do not answer an unknown number. With those two facts how do pollsters conduct their polls and get even semi-accurate numbers?
6 polls released today. Average Biden lead was 9.5 points.
Trump is getting NO fvcking momentum as long as the virus lingers. His approval ratings are taking a hit too.
When they say “the polls were wrong in 2016 but it’s different now.”
If by “different” they mean even less reliable, they’re right.
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