Posted on 06/21/2017 2:15:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pollsters lie and exaggrate. People talking to pollsters lie and exaggerate. The sample audiences pollsters tap are often skewed and dont genuinely representative of how the population demographics are really going to vote.
Bingo you asked te right question and the answer is the pollsters are trying to drive the polling info to lie to the public to suit their leftist agenda.
Pollsters should be given specific instructions NOT to watch CNN.
right and it actually worked. Had the polling been accurate the final result would have been a bigger defeat of Assoff
The late polls had it tied, my average had Handel up 0.4%, her victory margin was within the margin of error for that.
A couple weeks ago all the polls showed Jagoff up 2 or 3 points. Those +7 polls were obviously outliers.
The unemployed leftist millennials who live in their conservative parent’s basements were locked down there on election day and thus kept from voting for their social democrat candidate.
Or was it a case of the pollsters knew what the real numbers were and had to un-fudge them near the end so the sheep wouldn’t realize the game? “Oh look, she is rising at the end” instead of “we have been lying to you all along, but are now telling the truth so you don’t realize it was a lie.”
I’ve never bought the idea of sudden shifts in polling at the last minute. Sample size, weighting, and noise makes all polls suspect. Actually, the best approach may be to sample the same people over and over to watch for shifts in the numbers. I think one of the polling outfits did that in 2016 and they were one of the few that predicted a Trump win.
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They try and create a sense of inevitability around their candidate to try and supress voter turnout for the other side.
I’ve been voting Tepublican longer than most people have been alive and I’ve never been called and asked which candidate I’m voting for.
Their optimistic assumption and their blind never Trumpism caused them to fail, big time. Nice outcome for the good guys.
The MSM seems to be getting very good at gagging and swallowing lately...
I’ve never been called, but I did have one pollster knock on my door in October...
He asked who I was voting for and I told him it wasn’t any of his business...
His reply: “Oh, I take it you’re a Trump supporter...”
My comment: “I told you it was none of your business...Now, go...”
He left....
This is a post from confessed #nevertrumper Allahpundit. This douche was damned gleeful when the polls had Ossoff up by 7. Now is he just trying to find a way to shift blame.
I’m in this district. We got polling calls at least 5x a day. This is not an exaggeration. I hung up every single tine. These were obvious push polls and I refused to participate. I don’t think I was the only one. The Dems were very excited to participate in any poll they could so they could vent their frustrations.
Polls were not representative of the district
They put out bogus polls hoping for the heard mentality to kick in. When it’s obvious it’s not going to work they try to get a more accurate poll out at the very end to save their reputation.
Didn't work because the public at large, especially conservatives no longer believe ANYTHING being reported by the MSM "ministry of truth": CNN, ABC, seeBS, NBC, the Washington Poo, the NY Slimes or the Atlanta Urinal, etc... .
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