Armed & Humorous wrote: ?The polls are prettly accurate...? I sincerely hope you?re being sarcastic. (It?s hard to tell on forums and email without knowing someone personally.)
Is that why in every presidential election for the past 40+yrs, the media tells us the democrat candidate is ALWAYS in the lead? Every year, during the primaries right up to election day. Yes, they shift numbers slightly so that by election day they announce the polls are closer to 55/45% but they ALWAYS give the lead to the democrat, it?s just a matter of what size lead they think they can get away with at the time.
That shows the polls are accurate?
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The media doesn?t report the news any more at all. Instead, they try to influence the outcome with all these ridiculous polls. Year after year the conservative ?red? states far out number the ?blue? states, yet the polls supposedly tell us different.
Polling questions can be set up to give ANY outcome wanted: ?Do you sometimes agree with so-and-so?? or ?Do you sometimes disagree with so-and-so?? Those two questions give far different results. The first response they will tell you so-and-so is well liked. The second: that so-and-so has low approval ratings.
They used to ask, ?Do you agree/disagree for the most part with so-and-so?? Now they don?t even do that, as the results are predetermined by who is paying for the poll to be done.
What polls really are: is BS.
Polling companies love polls: that is how they make their money and justify their existence. They will tell you how very important and accurate they are.
Evidently politicians buy into them because they are too lazy to actually ask/listen to their constituents. And, perhaps, it is because they have no core beliefs/values of their own to guide them. Right or wrong isn?t even an issue any more, and seldom is what is good or bad for the country even a consideration. No leadership, no ethics, no backbones.
Why anyone puts stock in polls is beyond my comprehension.
