Polls are used to shape outcome, not report the lay of the land.
I remember that chalkboard-scratcher, Susan Estrich on FOX, I think, one Presidential election night, decades ago. She was coming absolutely unglued that the exit polls weren’t working and the ‘Rats weren’t able to control the election results.
That crystallized, to me, the function of these manipulative polls.
Now, we also know that they are cover for election theft - always by the Left, of course.
Years ago, New York Post’s Page Six had blurb about Susan being upset she was sitting next to a SS agent, I think, instead of someone “important.”
Oh I’d blocked my memory of Susan testEritch. One of the most annoying people of all time.