BELIEVING POLLS IS LIKE BELIEVING IN SANTA CLAUS

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CCRider
CCRider
November 9, 2017 9:45 am

It’s been obvious for many years that political polls are published, not to tell you what people think but to tell you what you should think.

Chaz Bono
Chaz Bono
November 9, 2017 10:12 am

She did win the popular vote, so the poll was right.

BeeUrSelf
BeeUrSelf
  Chaz Bono
November 9, 2017 10:32 am

In order to believe that she won the popular vote you have to believe the same crooks that put out the polls. I guess you can always find the answer that you want.

Trump won 88% of all of the counties.

Chaz Bono
Chaz Bono
  BeeUrSelf
November 9, 2017 12:35 pm

And you think the population is equally spread through each county?

Grog
Grog
November 9, 2017 10:14 am

Not long ago I received a phone call from a number I did not recognize.
Rarely do I take such a call, never the less it was a polling call.
The question was “What do you think of the problem of ignorance and apathy in America today?”
I told the caller “I don’t know and I don’t care.”

Steve C.
Steve C.
November 9, 2017 10:31 am

A better title for her book would be:

How I blew a 98% chance of winning faster than Monica blew bill…

Poll that!

Steve C.
Spring, Texas

Roy
Roy
November 9, 2017 10:46 am

A poll can be constructed to yield any results you want mainly through demographics and question wording. The public schools have been a great help to the left.

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit
November 9, 2017 11:52 am

Who are they polling? I know I’ve never been contacted by any poll. Perhaps they are only reaching people who are A-home all day, and B-still have a land line. If that’s the case, that is not representive sample.

mike
mike
November 9, 2017 11:58 am

Ad populum fallacy foisted on the stoopid. They knew.

LGR
LGR
November 9, 2017 12:42 pm

I heard one polling firm predicted it right. How? When they honestly tried to poll across all groups, most conservatives responded they were undecided. Why? They saw all the shame & derision directed at Trump supporters, so they didn’t reveal how they planned to vote. That one polling firm pushed further, and asked if the respondent knew how their neighbor, friends, or co-workers planned on voting. Only then did they get an idea that an upset was very real, and developing.
Often enough, the response was, “Well, my _____ plans on voting for Trump.”
The other polling firms looked ridiculous. I think CCR & Roy here have it right.

i forget
i forget
November 9, 2017 2:42 pm

Believing is Santa Claus. Poll-taking is how believers decide what’s Santa fee simple, what’s not. And poll weevils are feature, not bugs.