What does “Polls Say” in an Election even mean? How are they updated? No one has ever asked me my thoughts. Who are they asking and who is actually answering?
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Idk why we (the US) don’t have a nationally funded and 24/7 (well, i suppose business hours at least) polling stations. Tie it in with the Post Office, have it have new poll questions every week/day/whatever. People walk up (or have it done thru the mail), show their ID/voter registration and boom, they answer the poll questions and a couple days later the polling people report on what was answered.
Sometime, like after trump got shot by the republican kid or after Biden fumbled the fuck out of the debate, the polling stations will be busy all day long. Other times it would be empty. Either way, the ‘polls’ would be way more accurate and/or precise. And localized…and all that.
Plus it would not have the trolls and bots issue that modern polling has. Otoh it would be just another thing to argue over “Who gets to decide what questions are asked/how they are formatted?” or ” Is it fair to the poor who don’t have the time to get to the polls?” or “Since it is not voting, should non-citizens be allowed to answer poll questions?”…
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