"Voters are becoming harder to contact, especially on landline telephones. Online polls have become commonplace, but some eschew probability sampling, historically the bedrock of polling methodology. And in the U.S., some pollsters have been caught withholding results when they differ from other surveys, herding toward a false consensus about a race instead of behaving independently."
“in the U.S., some pollsters have been caught withholding results when they differ from other surveys, herding toward a false consensus about a race instead of behaving independently.””
If polls show leftists in lead, publish.
If polls a tie, spin.
If the numbers show conservative lead, bury.
That’s called “Modern Polling Interpretation”