Here's a writeup by FiveThirtyEight that happens to now be a part of ABC but didn't participate in this pill: How outlier polls happen — and what to do with them
These polls also don't sample people who use call screening (Google Voice for me) to ask unknown callers to say their name, because this breaks most robodialers.
Can we have politicians that are at least 20 years younger than moscow mitch?
Only if like 15 million more young voters show up to primaries. Fat chance, mate.
More bullshit from our bullshit media ~ "Can't understand how a high plains grifter got elected!?"
Polling has fallen into the same problem as everything else, they just skew the methods to make the numbers fit a narrative, be that the person paying them or some misguided ideas. Polling has been shit for years now, just ignore it
You'd have to be a fox "news" watcher.
During my adult life I've seen two American elections be literally stolen and handed to people who didn't win the vote, so why does this matter?
Msuhrooms sound real good, guess that's a plan for the weekend.
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