I posted the following in August. Most Freepers agreed with me, but some never Trumpers and some probable pollsters or guys selling tv ads jumped all over me.
Last August, I was correct, and I am still correct!
Many of the so called pollsters have been Democrat Operatives for decades going back to when they predicted Carter would beat Reagan.
Pollsters today are like the buggy whip makers in the early 1900’s, facing economic devastation because they can’t poll many people. They are in a losing battle with social media and cell phones.
Now, they are trying to compete with cell phones, social media and the problem of less landline phones.
More and more people on both ends of the age spectrum do not have landline phones. They only have cell phones.
Does anyone with a cell phone ever answer any unknown numbers and specifically any 800 #’s?
Probably not.
We use no more robocalls on our two land lines. Zero pollsters have gotten through since we started using no more robocalls, 2 plus years ago.
None of our voting age relatives have received a call from any pollster this election. That is 20+ Trump voters.
Then, there is this on social media versus polls:
Social Media Patterns Show Trump Is Looking at a Landslide Victory
Gateway Pundit ^ | Aug 7th, 2016 | Jim Hoft
Posted on 8/7/2016, 8:32:37 AM by detective
Current polls show the race for President is much tighter than it really is. Ann Coulter warned us years ago in her bestseller Slander that Democrats and the liberal media always use polls to manipulate and discourage conservatives from voting. Thanks to social media there is more and more evidence that the polls are way off and if things stay as they are, Trump will win in a landslide!
It’s evident that, Hillary has a hard time filling a Union Hall or high school gym while Trump regularly turns people away from his stadium and arena venues.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3457347/posts
A final question have you or any Trump voters, you know, actually been polled this year?
No, but...
Since the 90s, when I was polled many times, I lied on 100% of the questions 100% of the time to suggest I supported Clinton/Soros/Obama, BLM, more welfare less defense spending, etc.
I hope I can claim a little credit in blowing up their childish games.
Dave,
Concur with your comments. And never contacted by a political pollster my whole life long.
I’d love to hear Kelly Anne Conway expound — she’s a pollster. And I’m sure we’d get the straight skinny from her.
Nielsen TV ratings are based on demographically selected and paid households who agree to have their TVs wiretapped.
To regain credibility, political pollsters need to rely on something similar.
But in one way, these polling errors are a good thing. Imagine how foolish Hillary was, campaigning in Texas in the final days instead of Michigan or Penn. The false sense of security and poor polling intelligence inside the RAT camp helped us.
Too many people live in their own echo chamber these days: Facebook and other feeds do that for you. On FR, we were widely exposed to the comments of opponents — we were flooded with those messages by the MSM, and they drove us crazy.