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Rand Paul: "Days Of The Pollsters Being Accurate Are Gone"
RCP ^ | February 1, 2016

Posted on 02/02/2016 5:00:40 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal

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To: ObamahatesPACoal

I’m doing my part to make polls inaccurate. When polled I answer every other question with a lie.

I had occasion to sit next to some political consultants at a bar recently. We struck up a conversation. I told them my strategy, and they realized that if even one or two folks use this approach out of a typical statistical pool, it amplifies the error greatly - and this can’t be discovered until the poll is shown to be wrong.

Just doing my part.


21 posted on 02/02/2016 5:37:30 PM PST by RFEngineer
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To: RFEngineer

I don’t speak to them at all.


22 posted on 02/02/2016 5:43:21 PM PST by mylife
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

The days of the vote tallies is not far behind but, I lie to pollsters when I answer their calls.


23 posted on 02/02/2016 5:50:34 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Hmmm... time to start throwing those b****rds off...


24 posted on 02/02/2016 5:53:00 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: blackdog

Good point.


25 posted on 02/02/2016 5:54:57 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: mylife

“I don’t speak to them at all.”

I used to be that way, but they kept calling. So, fair is fair - I figured out, statistically, how to screw up their polls - in hopes that if they are wrong enough, long enough they’ll go away.

You may as well have some fun with them, once you’ve answered the phone.


26 posted on 02/02/2016 6:06:43 PM PST by RFEngineer
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Rnd Paul did win the Iowa caucus in a parallel universe (the one where the Dave Clark Five were the ‘60s top supergroup).


27 posted on 02/02/2016 6:15:32 PM PST by MUDDOG
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28 posted on 02/06/2016 1:04:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: RFEngineer

That’s awesome. Well played.

You are far from the only one to do that.


29 posted on 02/06/2016 8:46:53 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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