Posted on 11/04/2020 12:55:03 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Every single major election year, they do it to us. They offer us numbers, and people interested in politics mainline them like heroin. We’re soothed. We’re calmed. Soon we are hungry for more, more, more. By election night, we junkies end up fried, damaged, and in need of rehab.
It’s time to go cold turkey before our last brain cells are destroyed.
Donald Trump won Florida by 3.5 points. In 2016, he won Florida by 1.1. Last night he tripled his margin of victory. And the polling? The final 538 average had Joe Biden winning Florida by 2.5 points. It was off by 5.
You’ll hear people say this is a normal polling error, not a systemic failure. Bullbleep. This is the third race in a row (Presidency 2016, Governor and Senate 2018, and this) in which Florida polling was almost comically wrong.
That Florida disaster is mirrored in a longer and deeper national story. We’ve lived through a series of national elections in which we were sold a bill of goods—about the Obama reelection in 2012, about the Senate in 2014, about the Trump-Clinton contest in 2016 and about control of the House in 2018. Most polls got all these wrong too.
And yet we fell for their crap again.
Political polling is a fraud. It claims to measure something that, it is now unmistakably clear, cannot be accurately measured. Polling’s seductive promise is that it will take the guesswork out of understanding a complex and changing set of circumstances and replace that uncertainly with something that looks like science.
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This election should be over!!!!!
Demonrats are trying to STEAL this election
There is NO DOUBT!!
They used to be somewhat OK, ut since Trump it is horsesht.
It reminds me when Bush Jr was doing a temper tantrum because the internet had voted him out next to Keyes and Forbes.
The establishment then did a media blackout on Keyes and Forbes.
They do not want an outsider.
agree
Yeah, they would not spoil or delay the party like this if it was an Obama winning.
Imagine the pubes doing this to them in 2012.
It is such bull sht. They are like these parasite teachers or suppliers delaying and stonewalling... trying to kill it.
Bret Baier has been highly praising the Trafalgar Group all night... saying they’re pretty much the only polling company that got it right.
This is insane. We need legislation to streamline the vote. This is a national election. The Congress & POTUS MUST write laws that require voting be done in a consistent manner throughout the country.
In Person, unless disabled or out of state for election day.
Paper Optical read ballots ONLY. Paper Trail is needed.
NO MORE ELECTION MONTH. We have a constitution that says WHEN election DAY is. That is when we should vote. PERIOD!
There is no excuse that we can’t count the vote in a few hours, not days.
This is a disgrace.
what is the popular vote right now??
Also , we need to start ignoring the left wing media. Cancel your subscription to these purveyors of lies. You do better with no information than false information. Not kidding. Remove them from your lives. Find other news outlets. Stop funding them.
Trump told Hannity "I must tell you that Fox has among the worst pollsters of all. I think they're terrible."
If Brett Baier thinks Trafalagar is so good perhaps he should suggest that Fox actually use them.
We don't.
Fool me once shame on you.
Fool me twice shame on you.
This guy is a presumptuous dope. Who is “we?” I have steadfastly refused to take any polls seriously since 2016.
I disagree with you on that. Did you know that under the Constitution, there is no requirement for states to allow people to vote in presidential elections? State legislatures have the authority to establish their own rules for appointing electors to the Electoral College. Maybe it’s time for a couple of states to have their legislatures select the presidential electors directly — which is the way 7 of the original 13 states did it very early on in our country’s history.
How About The President’s remarks?
(Video)
https://twitter.com/easystreet4/status/1323918543218339841?s=21
~Easy
“Fool me once shame on you.
Fool me twice shame on you.”
I think you mean, “Fool me twice shame on me”
“We” do not.
But “we” enjoy their bluster.
The REALLY good news.
Tomorrow they will ALL be unemployed.
Barnes and Baras at "What Are the Odds?" have been consistently right. They show how states you wouldn't think are connected will go together because of demographic and ethnic trends you can spot--if you know what you're doing, and don't lie to yourself in either direction.
When I heard Trump was pulling away in Florida, I knew Biden was toast in the upper Midwest. Which means he's toast. The only thing that could save him will be if everybody stops counting votes for long enough for his mad-scientist bosses to create more imaginary votes and ship more firebombs around the country.
Oremus, and keep our powder dry.
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