[IrishBrigade]

.Reagan was neck and neck with carter in the polls...none showed the landslide it was....polls are bs

yu are aware that in 1980, political polling was still in its infancy as a predictive medium, and nobody but Gallup ever made money from it...

pollsters don’t make money for being wrong...

[Buckeye McFrog]

yu are aware that in 1980, political polling was still in its infancy as a predictive medium

I would argue that polls in 1980 were far MORE reliable. Almost everyone had a landline. No one had caller ID. Most would answer a pollster's questions honestly and would never think about lying to them. And you had an infinitely better chance that the person who picked-up the line spoke English.

None of those conditions exist today. In 1980 Pat Caddell gave Carter a poll five days before the election which called the correct result to within 1%.