Posted on 05/29/2019 7:05:11 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe
For Trump supporters to skew a poll they need to give anti-Trump responses, which just gives the MSM more ammunition for using the results as disinformation to influence the actual vote away from Trump.
It was at 9:00 pm; if you watch YouTube clips of the news coverage that night (sometimes broken up by hour), the calls and info available at 9:00 pm EST tell them they have a serious problem. They saw Virginia (home of the Dem VP candidate) wasn’t called quickly, didn’t get the huge margins they expected in safe lib states even as they won them, and they understood what that meant across “real America”. They delayed making calls (like Georgia) to boost morale, but they understood there were serious hurdles ahead.
The two campaigns in the final days foretold those problems; Hillary campaigning with the Obamas in Philly (for what should have been a “safe” state) while Trump hit the upper Midwest (in states that should have been beyond his reach).
One reason or maybe the reason that polls are not terribly accurate is that more conservatives than liberals/lefties react to pollsters by hanging up the phone or lying. This has been happening for several cycles now. I would love for that to be the rule rather than occasional.
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