• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Only in certain polls, and as we have seen time and again, the polls don’t mean shit. Bernie was leading in the polls this far out from the election in 2019. “Somehow” he isn’t president.

      Hell, Hillary was leading in the polls on, and after, election day 2016. She won the general election…

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      1 year ago

      “The polls”

      If I go outside and ask the three young kids riding their bikes what their favorite ice cream is, I’ve joust conducted a poll.

      Apropos to this specific scenario, if I go to a chocolate lovers convention and ask their favorite ice cream flavor, guess which flavor might leaf the way. Now what is while along the question, I was wearing a t-shirt that says “vote for chocolate and I’ll give you $20 bucks”.

      “Chocolate is leading in the polls, okay… You know it, I know it.”

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        1 year ago

        What point are you trying to make?

        Are you implying that only live and die Trump voters are being polled?

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          1 year ago

          I mean, to a degree, polling in general is still conducted with a very antiquated structure that tends to bring in responses predominately from the underemployed, undereducated and elderly (so huge cross section of enthusiastic trump voters over represented in those groups). But my specific point here was that he’s ambiguously citing “polls” and not a specific poll - They aren’t all created equal and in fact, you can bet the ones that trump would proudly reference are typically biased as fuck in how they ask questions and analyze results.