[xkaydet65]

Polls are big business that depend on their reputation to keep and attract clients. So I find it hard to accept that, given their disastrous performance in ‘16 they haven’t gone to great lengths in redesigning their algoritms and practices to prevent another such disaster. So give the current polls more credence than most here.

[campaignPete R-CT]

If 15% of Trumpets refuse to disclose their support ... very impossible to poll them

[willk]

The pollsters get the results that their clients want.

[11th_VA]

Only 2% of people polled respond today - it used to be 50%. So if the nutty Trump hating Librarian in some rural 50,000 person town is the only one to
respond, her response gets amplified beyond reason.

[TerP26]

Definitely agree here. They presumably have corrected for how wrong they were. That being said - they are probably fighting the last war. I bet there are new biases this year that they are not accounting for.

[Rumierules]

I think accurate polling is more difficult now than ever because people can and do avoid answering the phone or responding to questions however they are delivered. But polling companies, whether they lean left or right, have no incentive to “square” with the customers and tell them that polling now is harder than ever.

But here’s the way that polls “get better” closer to Election Day — they cheat by looking at early voting activity to “true up” their polling. By the time they’ve conducting their final poll in many states, more than 50 percent have voted. And many states identify the number of Democrats and Republicans who have cast ballots. There is no way polling companies don’t use this data to massage their results.

[SoConPubbie]

Polls are big business that depend on their reputation to keep and attract clients. So I find it hard to accept that, given their disastrous performance in ‘16 they haven’t gone to great lengths in redesigning their algoritms and practices to prevent another such disaster. So give the current polls more credence than most here.

Seriously?!!?!!

Get back to me when they quit routinely oversampling Democrats by 9+ points or polling registered vs. likely voters.

Then you might believe you have a point.

[TheConservativeTejano]

Polls are big business that depend on their reputation to keep and attract clients. So I find it hard to accept that, given their disastrous performance in ‘16 they haven’t gone to great lengths in redesigning their algoritms and practices to prevent another such disaster. So give the current polls more credence than most here.

Partner, the pollsters and MSM are doing the same thing as 2016.

The polls that we are seeing are so screwed up and are totally in favor of the DemonRats.

Algorithms and practices are complete Bravo Sierra.

There are more folks from the democratice party that are voting for President Trump.