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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Fri Oct 30, 2020, 02:17 PM Oct 2020

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Dear panic pollsters: I just sold my cow, so---

---i don't need your bull.

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Dear panic pollsters: I just sold my cow, so--- (Original Post) Atticus Oct 2020 OP

I think the pollsters are on target StClone Oct 2020 #1

How can "the pollsters" be "on target" when they range from "Trump will lead the Red Wave" Atticus Oct 2020 #3

Where are you reading Red Wave? Not in anything I've seen. StClone Oct 2020 #4

Of course, polls don't use the words "Red Wave", but there have been recent polls predicting Atticus Oct 2020 #5

I just got off one with a lot of Jon King... LakeArenal Oct 2020 #2

StClone

(11,682 posts)

1. I think the pollsters are on target

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Fri Oct 30, 2020, 02:26 PM

Oct 2020

Which are you seeing as questionable?

Atticus

(15,124 posts)

3. How can "the pollsters" be "on target" when they range from "Trump will lead the Red Wave"

Reply to StClone (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 30, 2020, 02:33 PM

Oct 2020

to "Landslide for the Democrats"?

StClone

(11,682 posts)

4. Where are you reading Red Wave? Not in anything I've seen.

Reply to Atticus (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 30, 2020, 02:35 PM

Oct 2020

Atticus

(15,124 posts)

5. Of course, polls don't use the words "Red Wave", but there have been recent polls predicting

Reply to StClone (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 30, 2020, 02:43 PM

Oct 2020

a Trump victory despite overwhelming polling indicating he is losing.

Polls do differ in their integrity and reliability and it is difficult to consider some of them anything other than paid-for propaganda.

LakeArenal

(28,798 posts)

2. I just got off one with a lot of Jon King...

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Fri Oct 30, 2020, 02:33 PM

Oct 2020

Meaning, “if this is that way, or if this happens, then will that poll be right. Or does this mean x?

Polls are just polls. Never believe them wholly or disbelieve.

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