WelfareQueen
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- Sep 4, 2013
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They failed MISERABLY in 2016 with very few polls getting it right so why do the SAME pollsters that did such a lousy job in 2016 think people are going to be fooled by them again in 2018? Is it just them trying to regain some relevance and crush the populist wave coming? I personally get a gut feeling of how things are going to go and I think the polls are WAY off like worse than 2016 levels. OBVIOUSLY MILLIONS more people are voting and its mostly GOP voters....if the polls are completely off again what happens? Do polls still try to stay relevant? Do they disappear?
Your premise is bullshit. Polls did not "fail miserably" in 2016. They had Clinton getting more votes, and she did. The fact that the Electoral College perverted that into a different result is no reflection on polls that were polling voters, not Electors.
It's like somebody said not too long ago --- "more votes equals a loss? We should have a revolution in this country!" Remember who that was? I do. Here's a hint: he paints himself orange.
Ah....Pogster.....a couple of things. We we do not elect our President by popular vote so national polls in Presidential elections really don't mean shit.
Second, the 2016 election came down to 11 battleground states and the polling was terrible. Hillary was supposed to win Pensylvania by 3.7 points. She lost by 1.2. Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin were all off between 6 to 7.5 points. In fact, every battleground state was off and all were biased against Trump and the GOP.