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minus-squareInternetUser2012@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·3 months agoYou aren’t remembering correctly then.
minus-squareknightly the Sneptaur@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoThat hack was popular, but not a good analyst: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/05/04/qa-political-polls-and-the-2016-election/ Not only were the national polls within 2% of the final total, the last series of state polls going into election day had a very obvious trend line:
minus-squareInternetUser2012@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoSo what you’re saying is almost like polls don’t really matter, thanks for proving my point.
minus-squareknightly the Sneptaur@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoOf course the polls don’t matter. National elections don’t even matter. But that’s no excuse for being surprised about the results.
You aren’t remembering correctly then.
That hack was popular, but not a good analyst:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/05/04/qa-political-polls-and-the-2016-election/
Not only were the national polls within 2% of the final total, the last series of state polls going into election day had a very obvious trend line:
So what you’re saying is almost like polls don’t really matter, thanks for proving my point.
Of course the polls don’t matter. National elections don’t even matter. But that’s no excuse for being surprised about the results.