Here are some facts of life. Pollsters don’t do this stuff for free. They get clients who want to know how we feel about something. They in their expertise and methodical practices set about to create and conduct the most unbiased and scientific accounting of that very question....right?
They get paid money for that, and their prior track record of ‘being right’ allows them to get more money....right?
So. To get and keep business, they have to give the client what they want, or at least a good enough story with good news to keep them in it for the long haul.....
It’s no wonder that right before elections, most polls seem to converge on the real answer - IOW, near the truth. They have to preserve their reputations (those final predictions) for future suckers, errrr clients.
The problem is now that there isn’t a really good way to poll a malaise, a desperation, a disgust - outright anger against the political machine of the status quo. All we want right now is to lash out and gouge somebody, something and hope we draw blood in some symbolic way.
It isn’t Trump that is the conundrum here. The problem is the status quo has lost the base - pissed on them and thrown them away for some illegal Mexican. You can’t blame it on Trump. He’s just the match that will light a fire the likes of which the status quo has not yet seen.
Yes, they lost the base with the crap they pulled in Mississipi. When we said we won’t forget MS - we darn well meant it. Then McConnell says he will crush the Tea Party. IF that wasn’t enough to make your blood boil, I don’t know what is. He and Boehner then lied to us and kissed obama’s butt every step of the way. And, yet, these buffoons still don’t get it. They think their money and power will get their establishment candidate elected. I don’t think so - we aren’t asleep any more.