They have pools of demographic “resources” who they can call upon to “freep” their polls, per their whims and fancy. They have had them since WAY before Reagan.
They use them to influence public opinion, via the “herd (heard it) mentality”. AKA: adult peer pressure, or zeitgeist creation... pass the “meme” please.
they can pick and choose their desired responses and demographic data, for example... a group that “claims” to be conservative, but that actually votes and chooses liberal... reliably... or a group that claims to be pro life, pro marriage, but votes the exact opposite...
if you have 2-3 hundred of various demographics, you can mix and match until you get the desired result...
you can even show a +10 for republicans (who are really for hillary died in the wool) and count on them to vote as “disenfranchised” conservatives... even though they are really liberal commies. THIS is the face of polling today.
A random sample of so called “likely voters” often means they have been pre-sampled, to supposedly determine the actual disposition of the “likely voter” and then they use that profile to include only republicans and independents, who they already KNOW will vote for hillary... and then they will claim that the sampling is unbiased.
This is the so-called “randomly selected pool of likely voters” or even “randomly selected pool of registered voters”... translation: “PRE SCREENED POOLS GENERATED FOR US TO SELECT FROM RANDOMLY.”
What they are reporting may be factual, based on the pool they chose “this time” to reflect the desired results... but they are not truthful fact findings, they are preassembled facts selected from a specific shelf off of a libary shelf labeled... the group that will give us the numbers we want... this time.
It’s clearly not news, when it is fabricated from pre-selected people...
more accurate would be an anonymous random sample of about 5-10 thousand people in each state... tabulated without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, income, education... etc.
that data is used to generate profiles that can be manipulated for presentation.
size of meetings and conventions, does not reflect on the number of voters that will turn out... rallies reflect the number of people MOBILE enough to get “there”, and inner city types, in some cities, do not even have a car, or a license to drive. They may not even be able to understand that Granny no longer has right to vote democrat because she has been dead for over a decade... that is so “unfair” to all her offspring to say “your granny is dead and has no more right to vote”...
Polls tell us more about the motives of the pollsters than it does about the ones ostensibly being polled.
I studied permutations and combinations in a statisics course 45 plus years ago... and that method, of randomness dart throwing, would be far more accurate than the current fraudulent practice of “normalizing” and “weighting” of response to achieve the desired national “zeitgeist” for presentation as the nation’s opinion representing US the people.
Random voters or nothing. Every other question is leverage to move the ball to the will of the pollster... and the pollsters are paid by the campaigns... And right now, hillary is flushing her money down the toilet, to feed us her crap sandwich... while she uses depends for her own personal excrement.
Thank you for that in depth response. So Hillary is not only paying for her crowds to show up, she’s paying these pollsters. I pray on November 8th that this nightmare will be over.