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When else have the polls been "wrong", other than the 2016 election? ?
2018? Bullseye. Every single year going back until back to Reagan's first election? Bullseye. Reagan's second election? Bullseye.
I can see how people would be desperate to pretend that statistics is a liberal conspiracy, and I'll concede that maybe social stigma can hide outsider candidates the first time. But in case 2018 didn't clue you in, there's no logical or historical reason to think polls are inaccurate, especially the ones by Rasmussen and Fox that are giving similar results.
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- 2 years ago
The polls are just as accurate as the news an serve the same purpose.
They no longer are objective polls but are merely political propaganda. The figures are made up.
OK, they may carry out a survey and do some math but the result was pre-determined to fit the political agenda.
- ?Lv 72 years ago
Polling has changed. Now it is used by media sources to produce the news the want to report. The use the polls to direct public opinion, not to report it and by manipulating the sample and the phrasing to the questions you can get any result you want.
- SharonLv 62 years ago
How about the famous headline "Dewey Beats Truman"?
Or the Literary Digest poll in 1936 predicting a Republican sweep?
- Anonymous2 years ago
2018 was a "bullseye"? In what universe ? The polls said a "Blue Wave" was going to win both houses. And the 35 seats that the liberals won was the 2nd lowest in HISTORY for a midterm election. Now compare that to 2010 when Republicans won 95 seats.
Tell me again now about how right those polls are.
