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And the trend that started after Jan 6th continues. Turns out most real Americans don't like #fascists.
Also, current pollsters are either leaning #GOP on purpose because they want a horse race or are trying to manufacture consent, or they simply cannot figure out how to poll in a post Roe v. Wade world.
or they simply cannot figure out how to poll in a post Roe v. Wade world.
No, they just don't know how to poll in a world where smartphones exist.
The overwhelming majority of people who even own a landline in 2023 are older people who tend to skew Republican, so it should be little surprise when the results also skew Republican. Younger people either don't own a landline at all, and/or are infinitely more likely to either ignore or outright block calls from numbers they don't recognize.
I have gotten calls from pollsters on my smartphone which surprisingly do not automatically identify as spam. As soon as they tell me who they are it's a "not interested" hang up from me. I don't care which party they claim they're with; I'm not giving any of my information, including political opinions, to someone I don't know. For all I know, I'm being targeted for some kind of identity theft or scam. I treat it the same way as someone calling "from my bank": assume they are up to no good. For something important that could have real consequences, I'll follow up with the bank myself.
So yeah, like you said, younger people just generally not giving a shit about helping pollsters.
I don't see an issue with taking a quick political poll. I've only ever gotten 2 or 3 calls, but I can see it getting obnoxious fast.
It is more an issue of not being able to verify who they really say they are.
Do we care? They can take the info, twist it to their own ends or leave it.
Maybe I'm being dense, but I can't see harm coming of answering a poll. Something I'm missing?
Not worth the risk imo. There is no benefit for me.
Smartphones have been around for a while now, but it seems like the polls being completely fucked is a fairly new development.
People have been mentioning it for years. Probably at least a decade. It's just becoming more and more noticeable as time goes on. More and more people are ditching landlines in favor of smartphones, and the elderly that are hanging onto them are dying off. It was discussed less back in the earlier parts of the last decade or so because there were still plenty of landlines, so it was considered a statistical anomaly at most. But it's been an issue for quite a while now.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
At a Thursday fundraising event in Chicago, President Biden trolled Republicans after Democrats secured several victories on election night.
“Democrats had an incredible night once again,” Biden said at the event, touting Democrats out-performing Republicans, citing wins in Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The President referenced recent polling that places him narrowly training behind former President Trump, but reassured donors Thursday that they are not screwing up by placing their support behind him.
A recent CNN poll found Trump polling at 49 percent to Biden’s 45 among registered voters in a hypothetical rematch between the 2020 election competitors.
Another poll, conducted by the New York Times/Siena College poll, found Trump leading Biden in five out of six critical battleground states, which were deemed likely to determine the outcome of the 2024 race.
The Kentucky governor’s race, for example, was viewed as an indication of how Democrats in red states can fare – and how the upcoming election cycle may look for the left.
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You’re no prize either, Joe…