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In reply to the discussion: Here Comes The Polls [View all]BumRushDaShow
(173,066 posts)Understand that "narratives" are born when analysts and statisticians and pundits ingest those "polls" and include their own biases, meaning they discard what they don't feel fits what they want to project (ignoring any "positive" polls for Democrats or over-emphasizing "positive" polls for either party), making the whole thing meaningless.
I know it can be a difficult concept to accept for those (as I posted elsewhere in this thread) who are "model humpers", but those who do this for a living are often unaware because they love numbers.
This sort of thing exists with election prognostications, with weather forecasters, with economic analysts who have swung and missed the UE numbers every month... month after month after month, for the past couple years, and it even applied to that Kentucky Derby that just concluded less than 90 minutes ago.