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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Mariana
(14,856 posts)When were the polls wrong before?
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Mariana
(14,856 posts)2 in 3 is nothing like a sure thing, so how was that wrong?
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)What is next on the hit parade?
Dem2
(8,168 posts)And please don't post your fears, we're all really anxious today.
trueblue2007
(17,217 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Signed up four years ago, has nineteen total including this.
I expect there are MIRT people whose fingers it at the sight....
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)I'm seeing many mole tunnels here today.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)But four years is pretty hard to pass off as a rookie....
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)There is a Yiddish word: Nebbish.
AmericanCanuck
(1,102 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Polls generally sample about a thousand people. If you work with multiple people in the same office who say they were polled, they are full of shit.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Eid Ma Clack Shaw
(490 posts)Total.
Fucking.
Bullshit.
ananda
(28,858 posts)We're winning by more than predicted.
CatWoman
(79,301 posts)again?
pwb
(11,261 posts)Tsunami
uponit7771
(90,335 posts).... males
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)The poll is today.
Blasphemer
(3,261 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Hillary won the popular vote by a point or two less than predicted.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)They were never polled.
Sunsky
(1,737 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,326 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)trueblue2007
(17,217 posts)Caliman73
(11,736 posts)I loved the tombstone.
the "name removed" is too bland. We need schadenfreude!
JCMach1
(27,556 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...is that, if it were true, state polls would show Trump running way behind Republicans in other races, such as Congress and the Governorship. That isnt happening if anything, hes running a bit ahead of his co-conspirators.
RandiFan1290
(6,230 posts)Welcome back to DU
Arkansas Granny
(31,515 posts)EllieBC
(3,014 posts)BainsBane
(53,032 posts)and your work colleagues are exceptionally stupid because the polls have set Trump off the rails.
marmar
(77,078 posts)JustFiveMoreMinutes
(2,133 posts)I guess them I'm a 'one less' Biden count.
I did get one text urging me to vote for Trump... My response "Fuck Off'.
budkin
(6,703 posts)This is not 2016, deliberate effort was made to adjust polling.
Happy Hoosier
(7,296 posts)Amishman
(5,557 posts)they are never quite accurate. The question is which way are they wrong, and by how much.
2016's systematic miss was a highly unusual modelling miss - one that has been corrected.
You would need another widespread, undetected change in voting/turnout patterns to have a repeat miss of the same size and direction
Possible but very unlikely.
If anything a miss the other direction is more likely, as pollsters by their own admission are often fighting the last war.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)On what basis do you make this assessment?
dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)Where people with a legitimate concern wouldn't be attacked by a paranoid mob
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obamanut2012
(26,068 posts)dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)I had my Cali concern topic alerted on the other day just for wondering what is happening during the last day of early voting their in a matter of seconds. The Op is probably sketchy, but there are people out there who are Real and by calling everyone a troll you are pushing them away
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)In the meantime, consider how one decides what is a legitimate concern, & what isn't.
There is no way to tell whether this OP is a legitimate concern.
The math suggests that what the OP says, couldn't actually occur.
And, how would this conspiracy to lie to pollsters would be effective, nationwide, with nobody finding out?
So, given that, is the OP a legitimate concern?
dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)Kaleva
(36,298 posts)obamanut2012
(26,068 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)Trump people say they are patriots and are religious, and they believe what they hear on Fox Noise is actually true.
So what you hear from Trump people can hardly be considered "reliable," especially when it has anything to do about the election. If a Trump person screams he is against abortion, you can bet there is an even chance he talked his mistress into getting one last week. Don't let what they tell you make you in the slightest nervous.
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)🍕🍕🍕
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)lie to pollsters as well. Say that they are voting Velveeta Voldemort while downing Pepto bismol.
LexVegas
(6,060 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Nice try, but kinda sad.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)To YOU!