The end of Polls?

Some Polls were off by almost 20 points (Maine senate race?)

Most were off by 5-10.

Are polls just biased opinionated propaganda?

Should they be banned in future elections?

Will people laugh at them in the future?

I think Polls are sitting next to "anonymous sources" right now.
Can Polls be replaced with a better and more accurate system?

@Cheesemaster
When people have grown to dislike taking polls, they stop participating in them.

@eladar said
@Cheesemaster
When people have grown to dislike taking polls, they stop participating in them.

Not if the Polls always favor your party.

They used to be accurate. But in 2016 and 2020 they were pretty out of whack.

@cheesemaster said
Some Polls were off by almost 20 points (Maine senate race?)

Most were off by 5-10.

Are polls just biased opinionated propaganda?

Should they be banned in future elections?

Will people laugh at them in the future?

I think Polls are sitting next to "anonymous sources" right now.
Can Polls be replaced with a better and more accurate system?

Are polls just biased opinionated propaganda?

Should they be banned in future elections?


The answer to both is "No" As I stated here before, polls are just a snapshot of peoples opinions at a moment in time. They were not designed to accurately predict election outcomes; and why would anyone want to ban them? If someone wants to give their opinion to a pollster and make their thoughts known, I think that might be allowed under the 1st amendment.

@cheesemaster said
Some Polls were off by almost 20 points (Maine senate race?)

Most were off by 5-10.

Are polls just biased opinionated propaganda?

Should they be banned in future elections?

Will people laugh at them in the future?

I think Polls are sitting next to "anonymous sources" right now.
Can Polls be replaced with a better and more accurate system?

The republicans obviously cheated.

If people weren’t constantly blocked from voting, intimidated and gerrymandered into pointlessness, maybe the polls would have been right.

@Earl-of-Trumps
The reason for that is a lot of folks didn't WANT to say who they voted for so the pollsters have to up their science to catch that deception.
Too bad for all you trump cultists though
and WAY too bad for Trump and his family now that he will not be saved by his buddies on SCOTUS.

LOCK HIM UP!

Payback is a bitch ain't it.

So far the popular vote for Biden is over 72 MILLION, popular vote win almost FOUR million. Nearly 2X hillary's result.

SUCK IT UP TRUMPITES, we now have a country to repair.

@mchill said
Are polls just biased opinionated propaganda?

Should they be banned in future elections?


The answer to both is "No" As I stated here before, polls are just a snapshot of peoples opinions at a moment in time. They were not designed to accurately predict election outcomes; and why would anyone want to ban them? If someone wants to give their opinion to a pollster and make their thoughts known, I think that might be allowed under the 1st amendment.

One good reason to ban opinion polls is that expectations of the likely outcome of an election might actually effect how or whether people cast votes. Going by the polls, for instance, a Republican this time might have thought, "It's going to be a Biden landslide; I might as well not bother to vote". Or a Labour supporter in the UK election in 2017 might have thought, "It's going to be a Tory landslide; I might as well not bother to vote."

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Probably exactly right.

Anyone know the vote numbers back then?

I think it was close to what we just saw so maybe you're wrong...