Can I ask a stupid question? Don’t these pollsters care about accuracy??? Isn’t there professional reputation for accuracy in polling going to be judged on how well they predict an election??? If their polls are far off of the actual results, won’t they have “egg on their faces”??
Don’t these polling companies do a lot of work with polls and surveys apart from political campaigns?? Isn’t their professional reputation on the line if they turn out to be way off in this election????
... Isn’t there professional reputation for accuracy....
Many decades ago, the MSM had a good reputation. Things change.
Can I ask a stupid question? Don’t these pollsters care about accuracy??? Isn’t there professional reputation for accuracy in polling going to be judged on how well they predict an election??? If their polls are far off of the actual results, won’t they have “egg on their faces”??
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Sure they care. However they depend on the huge majority of people to never look at the internals and truthfully most people you would ask do not even know what internals of a poll are and how they factor into the results.
These polls are done to shape and drive opinion not to inform. As long as they get the polls closely right in the last release or two before the election they can easily point to those polls and claim they were accurate while ignoring the distortions and manipulation in the previous polls.
You will not the polling co always claim the “polls tighten as the election gets closer”. This is how they can “ease” into legitimacy after being so blatantly disingenuous.
They care about accuracy only at the end.
All poll prior are for the sole purpose of shaping public opinion.
Reuters will NEVER publish their final poll with a D+11 sample.
Good question. The answer is: Apparently not. Early on during the primary season they want to be able to predict the winners. But I think many of them are really just a tool of the Left and doing what they can for the grand cause of getting their candidate, Hillary Clinton elected. They are there not to gauge the voting sentiments of the country but to influence the masses and the outcome. People like voting for winners. If her numbers are going down they will do what they can as part of the rat machine to prop her up. Any false predictions will be forgotten. Do you remember all the false predictions of the past and who made them? I certainly don't.
They’ve altered their methods to account for the cheating.
Not until after October 15th or 20th. Up until then, they want to shape the outcome, not predict it.
It is even more blatant than usual this year.
What I heard is that this biasing of the polls is designed to disenfranchise Trump voters prior to the election and possibly get some to put off registering in time. The only poll that counts is election day and they do try to get it right just before election day so that they are well regarded in upcoming elections.
Don’t these pollsters care about accuracy???
No. They are intent on crooking the results so their candidate with the deep pockets can win and throw them moolah moolah moolah.