A Tale Of Two Kenosha Receptions - But Remember: TRUST THE POLL NUMBERS
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At least Trump’s pollster called out the bullshit. He mentioned, (which few ever do) how so many of the polls oversample Democrats.
That is one out of hundreds of possible ways to fuck with a poll, if that is your goal.
Not to mention the hundreds of other ways that a poll can be off due to mere incompetence.
Pollsters can also just fucking make up any results that their customers want .. what is gonna stop them?
When was the last time you heard of a polling company going out of business because they were inaccurate?
That was method #75. Group oversampling bias was #36. Wording questions in a biased way is #18. ( "Do you support the President's weak handling of the pandemic?" )
Hell, it worked for Fusion GPS
BTW - regarding your username - when I was young my dad's version was, "Well, as the Russians say: toughshitsky."
Yup.
I was at work once and we got a phone call from a pollster who was either drunk or hard-of-hearing...or both. My boss put it on speaker phone so we could all hear. At one point the pollster asked to rate our enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton with 1 being none and 5 being very high. We all laughed and my boss asked if zero was an option. There was a slight pause, a hiccup or something and the pollster repeated, "OK, five" then moved on to the next question.
Polls...meh.