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The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 07:45 PM Oct 2022

I having as much trouble digesting this "neck and neck in the polls" as I did with dire predictions

of Newsom being recalled (it was going to be a nail biter and mostly likely a constitutional crisis) , Ukraine falling in two days time (it was an absolute certainty) or the Kansas Abortion vote.

It was endless bullshit in each case.

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I having as much trouble digesting this "neck and neck in the polls" as I did with dire predictions (Original Post) The_Casual_Observer Oct 2022 OP
Problem is this shit gets people to give up. Eliot Rosewater Oct 2022 #1
And oh shit every goddamn piece right now is about how interest in Roe has vanished The_Casual_Observer Oct 2022 #2
Madness and the courts today showing us again if the judges are GOP, the law means nothing Eliot Rosewater Oct 2022 #6
Here's something for you ... Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2022 #7
Retweeted, thanks Eliot Rosewater Oct 2022 #9
Actually, that wasn't the one I intended to post ... Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2022 #10
I think polls are missing a lot of rightfully angry women. Qutzupalotl Oct 2022 #3
All the "I'm so worn.... I need a break". Designed to make us give up... LakeArenal Oct 2022 #4
We will not go down without a fight. walkingman Oct 2022 #5
I never miss an opportunity to promote Democrats and GOTV on social media. Runningdawg Oct 2022 #8
Everything they tell you on cable news Mr.Bill Oct 2022 #11
I hate it. I crave actual drilled down honest to god content. The_Casual_Observer Oct 2022 #12
Including their pimping (Yes) of Republican partisan polls Dawson Leery Oct 2022 #13
Polling companies are not stupid. Mr.Bill Oct 2022 #14
The Fox "News" poll has Dems up 49-46, yet no one gave it any attention. Dawson Leery Oct 2022 #15

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Problem is this shit gets people to give up.
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 07:51 PM
Oct 2022

I am the most negative person here probably, and I dont believe these polls either.

We need to post in social media NON STOP that we are NOT to give up and to vote!

 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
2. And oh shit every goddamn piece right now is about how interest in Roe has vanished
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 07:56 PM
Oct 2022

and it's all about how the republicans are going to win on their "plans" to reverse inflation - of which there is nothing but even worse pain and suffering.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
6. Madness and the courts today showing us again if the judges are GOP, the law means nothing
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 08:03 PM
Oct 2022

as they stopped student debt law

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,342 posts)
10. Actually, that wasn't the one I intended to post ...
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 08:37 PM
Oct 2022

Here, this one lays out a few accomplishments that will, hopefully, bring a smile...



Qutzupalotl

(14,307 posts)
3. I think polls are missing a lot of rightfully angry women.
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 07:58 PM
Oct 2022

Think Kansas.

If I had to guess, I's say a shift of about 5% or so — huge in political terms — coming from women who won't tell a pollster their true feelings in front of their family, but alone in a voting booth can vote in their own interests.

Dobbs is still resonating, and a lot of people don't have the luxury of forgetting about it.

LakeArenal

(28,817 posts)
4. All the "I'm so worn.... I need a break". Designed to make us give up...
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 08:01 PM
Oct 2022

Plenty of time for a break 19 days for now.

Geez….why take a “break” at the finish line?

I don’t get it. But downers are downers.

Runningdawg

(4,516 posts)
8. I never miss an opportunity to promote Democrats and GOTV on social media.
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 08:15 PM
Oct 2022

However, I no longer trust the press or the polls, every race is 50/50 to me.

Mr.Bill

(24,284 posts)
11. Everything they tell you on cable news
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 08:40 PM
Oct 2022

is designed to make you watch more cable news. It happens with every election. The closer to election day, the closer the races become. I call it "dead heat season", and it's here.

 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
12. I hate it. I crave actual drilled down honest to god content.
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 09:31 PM
Oct 2022

I think there is a market for 200,000 polls and sober analysis. This 1000 people filtered through defective bullshit wrong algorithms is horrible. You think I'm on to something?

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
13. Including their pimping (Yes) of Republican partisan polls
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 09:33 PM
Oct 2022

Trafalgar, co/efficient/McLaughlin which are skewing the averages to the right.

Mr.Bill

(24,284 posts)
14. Polling companies are not stupid.
Fri Oct 21, 2022, 09:38 PM
Oct 2022

They know what the MSM wants to see and when they want to see it. If they didn't provide it, they would not be in business for long.

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