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So I guess all those improvements to polling didn't work. nt (Original Post) LAS14 Nov 2020 OP
Or... ZZenith Nov 2020 #1
How does polling verify the truth? LakeVermilion Nov 2020 #2
Question the results budkin Nov 2020 #3
Trumps people are fucking fanatics Hassin Bin Sober Nov 2020 #4
Exactly, they are fantastical liars. joshcryer Nov 2020 #8
They are, but how can their numbers be identified in polls? The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2020 #9
It is not the polling. It is the electronic voting system. UCmeNdc Nov 2020 #5
I think accurate polling has become nearly impossible The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2020 #6
Its nats ass possible every other country. Its like Covid, it can be controlled like it has in ... uponit7771 Nov 2020 #13
We had Republicans voting for Biden, Independents going Biden. I say they are in the machines now. LizBeth Nov 2020 #7
I agree crimycarny Nov 2020 #15
Depends on where the errors were. DrToast Nov 2020 #10
Wait until all the votes are counted. Johnny2X2X Nov 2020 #11
Its worse than 2016, ok ... this is horrible uponit7771 Nov 2020 #12
I think that conclusion is premature. Count all the votes first. n/t pnwmom Nov 2020 #14

LakeVermilion

(1,037 posts)
2. How does polling verify the truth?
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 05:55 AM
Nov 2020

Obviously the polling organizations can only deal with the data they collect. GIGO was the acronym in the early computer days.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,311 posts)
4. Trumps people are fucking fanatics
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 05:57 AM
Nov 2020

I’ve been saying it all summer.

When have we ever seen boat parades and mike long car parades?

joshcryer

(62,265 posts)
8. Exactly, they are fantastical liars.
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 05:59 AM
Nov 2020

They took every poll they could and they lied their asses off. I don't even know how pollsters are going to handle these people. And I don't know why they're called "shy" voters. They should be called "lie" voters.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,584 posts)
6. I think accurate polling has become nearly impossible
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 05:59 AM
Nov 2020

at least in part because people don't answer unknown callers on their cellphones (and in many cases those are the only phones they have), or even on their land lines if they still have them. For all I know I might have been called by a pollster but I don't answer my phone unless I recognize the number and I don't know anyone who does. So are the people who are polled just people who answer their phones? What ares the demographics of phone answerers?

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)
13. Its nats ass possible every other country. Its like Covid, it can be controlled like it has in ...
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 06:03 AM
Nov 2020

... hundreds of other countries on earth its what happening in the US that's screwed up

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