Not many polls in December for first states in Democratic primary

[Drunken Irishman]

24. I did.

If it's a conspiracy against your candidate, why have they decreased each cycle since 2008?

You've failed at backing up your initial assertion that it shouldn't be harder to reach voters in 2019 than it was in 2016 and I outlined, pretty reasonably, I might add, why it is, in fact, more difficult to reach voters today than four years ago. You had no answer for my evidence, so, you do what many who can't concede defeat do and you deflected by asking an avoiding question. It's cute but you're the one who posted the initial claim and I refuted it. You started the dialogue and I responded. It's my fault that I expected actually having an intelligent conversation based around facts with someone on here - oops. Instead, you took the Donald Trump approach and made an easily disprovable claim and then, when confronted with evidence about why that claim doesn't hold up, you pivoted to something different altogether.

Whatever. Your initial post was wrong. I showed you why you were wrong. I feel I did my due diligence in proving how wrong you were. If you refuse to answer the information I provided, that's on you. It just indicates to me to never enter into another conversation again with you because you're clearly not here for actual debate and rather just lobbing bullshit accusations with the occasional gas-lighting. So, good luck.

But to answer your ridiculously vague question: polls are most valuable and accurate when the resources, and costs, are invested into 'em, which means, maybe fewer, but more accurate polls, are the wave of the future despite your whining about there being less polls conducted than four years ago. Since more resources go into mining polling data today than a decade ago, the cost + effort likely means fewer overall polls so not to undermine the data.

It's a big reason I am skittish about the accuracy of the weekly polls from the Economist/YouGov and Morning Consult, even if they show Biden doing well.

So there you go. Peace.