• @Skyrmir
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    35 months ago

    Likely voters are those that have voted before, that’s what makes them likely to vote again. For the most part they’re the more accurate people to be polling.

    • @jordanlundM
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      35 months ago

      And discounts first time voters.

      Some even only count people who voted in the last 2 elections.

      • @Skyrmir
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        65 months ago

        Because new voters are a rounding error smaller than the error bars of the sample size.

        Polling is pretty much like the unemployment rate. Any individual reading is meaningless, it’s a multitude of readings over time that give any useful information.