• Coelacanth
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    302 months ago

    Trump rising in the polls is making my stomach churn. Having a bit of hope was nice while it lasted, I guess.

    • @kescusay
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      232 months ago

      Don’t freak out. It’s a single poll, and given trends, it looks like an outlier.

      And remember that polling is still pretty fucked right now.

    • @Makeitstop
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      92 months ago

      That’s what push polls are for, to inflate the numbers for their own side while discouraging the opposing side.

      And even those polls which aren’t intended to skew the results are going to be shifted to meet the expectations of the pollster as they try to adjust the data to reflect what they think is a representative sample of likely voters.