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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I had a pollster quiz me over the phone once in a political election. After several questions, it was obvious that all the questions had been designed to get a certain response, and was obviously funded by one of the parties involved.
Sort of like the old joke, “Does your Mother know you’re stupid?” It’s established you’re stupid whether she knows or not.
When I mentioned this to the pollster (probably a minimum wage working-his-way-through-college type) about how obvious this was, he said, “Yeah, I know. But I gotta ask them like they’re written”.
If I remember right, the polls said Hillary would win…
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