Polls, What Are They Good For……….
…..absolutely nothin’!
Along with the myth of the blue wave being exploded, when you take into account how completely wrong the polls were in 2016, the nature of polling in general (that they are meant not to measure public opinion but to influence it) and the fact that the past 4 election cycles have seen the Democrats lose something like 1,200 seats at every level down to dog catcher, that the election of Donald Trump in 2016 was the final rejection of Obamanism/Hillaryism, a 24-month economic miracle not seen in decades that underscores the abject failure of Democrat policies and personalities,…..
4 thoughts on “Polls, What Are They Good For……….”
I agree, watch what they are doing, not what the polls are saying. Where is Trump campaigning? Where are the Rats running the most adds. That will tell you where the races are at. Here in Missouri, both Claire and Josh are still going hard at it. Tells me what I want to now. Vote Republican.
The only poll that counts is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. All the others are junk.
So I heard Newt Gingrich on the radio on the way home yesterday. He said he heard something interesting about his old district in Georgia:
The New York Times was conducting a poll of his district, and made 31,000 phone calls to get 431 responses.
He says, “If they have to make that many calls, to get that few responses, how can you believe the polls?”
He also said he thinks people are sick of them, and just ignore them.
A friend of mine pointed out, with that kind of response rate, how can these polls claim such low margins of error? SHouldn’t the margin be like 30%?
So my bottom line is, their not polling the population, their polling people who answer the phone.
You’re exactly right KHS, the only poll that counts is the one you participate in via the voting booth.
My thoughts,
To use a line from the song “War” Edwin Starr to answer the question:
“Absolutely Nothing” “Say it again!!!”