[samtheman]

No, they just didn’t get them right.

[NohSpinZone]

Better question - when have these media polls been correct in recent elections?

[ladyjane]

The polls are all wrong.

Conservatives are working, they’re not sitting home answering the phone.

Smart people never answer the phone when it’s an unknown caller.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Better question... Are pollsters trying to gage public opinion or drive it?

I like my question beeter

[Red Badger]

I lie to pollsters.
Everybody should.
It’s FUN!.....................

[alancarp]

This - and the SC election - are proving one thing to me: we can’t be complacent. Both races were way closer than they should have been. We’ve gotta urge voting in better numbers.

[CincyRichieRich]

Gosh, you mean the pollsters were dishonest?

[ClearCase_guy]

Polls aren’t trying to accurately predict a winner.
Polls are trying to persuade the voters; polls are trying to manufacture a winner.

And once again, the polls failed in their mission.

[onyx]

YES, the polls were wrong, ON PURPOSE!

[Sarah Barracuda]

Polls are ALWAYS wrong..us Trump voters don’t even respond to these idiotic polls which is why whenever I see some poll showing Trump with 38 percent approval, just add an additional 12 points to that and you have his real approval number

[Vlad The Inhaler]

LIBERAL SPIN

Monday:

• Heated Georgia Election Will Spotlight Trump Effect On Growing GOP Dis-unity

• Georgia Special Election Is Latest Test For The Damaged Republican Brand

• High-Stakes Referendum On Trump Takes Shape In A Georgia Special Election

• Georgia's Special Election To Showcase Rising Anti-Trump Tide

• Republians Pour Money Into Georgia To Soften Coming Setback

Wednesday:

• What Election?

[madprof98]

I think this means the Democrats really won . . . or something. These guys need real jobs.

[csivils]

The author makes the assumption that the purpose of the polls was to accurately predict the race... rather than to actively shape it.

[Secret Agent Man]

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.

[rovenstinez]

Pollsters should be given specific instructions NOT to watch CNN.

[Impy]

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.

[GreyFriar]

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.

[T. P. Pole]

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.”

[Flick Lives]

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.

[so_real]

I love that graph. There is genuine stupidity on display there.