Last poll 6-18 had them tied. So we Democrats are supposed to swallow that

[Laura PourMeADrink]

she mysteriously "wins" by 5.4 POINTS.

We are being had.

What do we do? What can we do. We have no power to launch any frickin kind of investigation.

[orangecrush]

1. ...

[YCHDT]

2. that & little to NO introspection from digitally scientific polling companies !!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. I bet they have ! They want to be right - you would think most every pollster would. But, when

something out of the norm happens - what can they do? It makes zero statistical sense. You are scratching your head and write it off to an anomaly. But, there are just too many of them now.

[YCHDT]

10. Right, once or twice coincidence but damn everyone of the close ones?!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. How are they doing it? They did it with Trump. Are there THAT many secret shit people

out there being ignored by the pollsters? doubt it. They overshot the scam this time. At least the smarter Republicans know to keep it razor close.

Fuck you Newt - know you had something to do with this.

[ecstatic]

4. The polls are only wrong when GOPers win... funny that.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. When is the last time a poll was wrong and a dem won?

[Loki Liesmith]

8. Obama 2012

Obama outperformed his polling average significantly.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. ok - one anomaly - one person with a brilliant, nationwide machine. Hard to rig for sure.

[standingtall]

17. Obama outperfoming in the polls in 2012 means nothing

because national polls were flooded with republican polls by republican pollster coming up with the results republicans wanted to hear.

[Loki Liesmith]

7. Simple no conspiracy reason for that

R voters turn out. D voters don't.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. bullshit

[YCHDT]

11. Or D voters are suppressed and R voters aren't

[mythology]

12. Here's a poll released yesterday that showed Handel up by 2 points with a 3 point moe

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/19/ga-6_poll_shows_2-point_lead_for_gops_handel_134230.html

A poll released on the eve of the special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District shows Republican Karen Handel with a slim two-point lead over Democrat Jon Ossoff.

The survey shows Handel with 50.46 percent of the vote, while Ossoff has 48.59 percent, within the margin of error. The poll, done by Trafalgar Group, a Republican polling firm, surveyed more than 1,100 likely voters June 17-18. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

Please get a new conspiracy. This one isn't supported by evidence.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. how convenient. and to add in the MOE # exactly.

[Doodley]

15. The weather played a big role. Voting hours favor Republicans (leaning to older

voters who do not have to commute from work or manage a family). Many of those who planned to vote after work in Atlanta, probably could not get there in time in the bad weather.

[Binders Keepers]

16. Heavy rains could have depressed the D vote too.

I myself do think that Repug's resort to vote-flipping--but only when they really need to. If Ossoff had been leading well into the evening, there might have been a "breakdown" of one of the vote tabulators and a delay of an hour or two while they "fixed it." But the way things were going today, they may not have had to resort to that.

[LeftInTX]

18. I remember that......