2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Spends 0 on Polling, Hillary Spends $900k. Bernie Doesn't Need Polling [View all]PATRICK
(12,335 posts)in getting this discussion to acknowledge the complex differences in polling explains why the propaganda polling abuses remain an issue in themselves. People wanted in to these necessarily accurate internal polling. It's simple available data waiting to for anyone to do themselves. Some political eyes-of-Heisenberg morphing ensued. We have a range of public polling that is competitive in public effect even more than accuracy. A constant circle of illusions. We have internal polls that pressure pols differently now because this public polling has mightily entered into the campaign mix. It is how we keep a questionable score in the external campaign game. We have "leaks" of internal polls that are gamed from the inside to the point of outright lies, or are actually signs of victorious glee, worry or despair. Truth is deniable until someone plain gives up- if only internally. Back to secrecy in all scenarios or else, like some losers failure to bluff it out causes downticket disaster.
The mainstream situation is not serving the public in these muddied waters if anything is responding to controls other than accuracy. To that point fixing the vote to beat down the accuracy becomes almost necessary for a hopeless party. that and continued misrepresentation of everything, polls or no polls, in our old media forums at least.
Internal polls are still secret. Public polls are still not reliable. Gaming of perceived opinion and interpretation continues. Emotions throw aside the game board of history and science. Accuracy checking(rather a campaign contest barometer) to protect against vote fixing is not allowed to come into its own and the scales dangerously tip toward aggressive fraud. The best and most needed polls are decent exit polls. The actual vote decision is the actual opinion.
Post election rationalization of exit polls has also been confused or corrupted.
Maybe it's like using a rubber harm on a steel nail. Why do we ave to accept a rubber hammer?