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To: metmom

Polls are actually more accurate then freepers like to admit

However

This go around given the record turnout and record new gop registration and lack of enthusiasm for Kank I agree that the polling companies are over sampling democrats

And Fox is ridiculous....their wsj polling is bull


47 posted on 10/09/2016 12:48:30 AM PDT by wardaddy (the traitorous GOPe deserves Third of May 1808 if ever a party did....)
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To: wardaddy

I see their efforts as trying to convince people that the person they don’t want is a lost cause .

There’s a book called *How to Lie with Statistics* that is VERY enlightening about how statistics are used to manipulate people.

One of the tactics is to do surveys, studies, or polls, and keep repeating them until you get the desired result. You ignore the rest of the data and publish just the one that proves your point.

So all we’re seeing is the ones they want us to see. There’s no way of finding out about polls that were conducted that showed Trump wiping the floor with Hillary. I’d guess they would vanish without a trace.


54 posted on 10/09/2016 6:02:23 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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