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molova

(543 posts)
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 09:07 AM Aug 2016

Which pollsters will be discredited into oblivion on November 8th?

As you may remember, Gallup and Rasmussen performed so badly in forecasting the 2012 presidential election that:

1) Gallup quit polling election races at all, out of embarrassment.
2) Rasmussen lost all credibility, to the point that even right-wingnuts won't quote it.

This time around, some pollsters will certainly be so far off the actual results that they will never be able to recover from the embarrassment.

Which pollsters will it be, in your opinion?

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Which pollsters will be discredited into oblivion on November 8th? (Original Post) molova Aug 2016 OP
Who the heck knows. There are so many out there now, fake & legit, it is hard to keep track. Native Aug 2016 #1
None. Rasmussen is still here despite several spectacular fails. Cicada Aug 2016 #2

Native

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1. Who the heck knows. There are so many out there now, fake & legit, it is hard to keep track.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 09:14 AM
Aug 2016

Generally, it is only the successful ones that people take note of and remember - like Nate. And if any of the fake ones/crappy ones go the way of the dust bin, I'm sure there will be others to take their place next time around.

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