Here Comes The Polls

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58. Polls are not the same as the narratives that SOME people spin around them, and are NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE to GOTV

I don't understand why you think the mantra "polls are meaningless!" is a necessary thing to push as an antidote to bad or misleading narratives sometimes built around polls.

You also mention slanted push polls, which no one is defending, and which are often not even the subject when the knee-jerk "polls are meaningless!" line is chanted.

Do you even know what the word "meaningless" means?

Even if you believe (and I strongly disagree) that polling is somehow dissuading voters and distracting from GOTV activities, or that it's some terrible emotional strain people need to avoid, none of those things are the same as the polls themselves being "meaningless".

Further, none of your mentions of "John Kings, Schmuck Toads, and helicopter arms Steve Kornaki" have anything to do with these people saying, "Listen to our polls and polling analysis and forget common sense!"

My mantra once more is GOTV.

Your mantra in no way, shape, or form requires ignoring polls or denouncing them as "meaningless".