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To: kvanbrunt2

Polls are pretty useless. For reasons gone into many times recently. Quoting myself, just posted it:

The polls are bogus. Weighted towards Dems and/or women, etc. Plus very few if any of the polls that I’ve looked into (of course not extensively), they don’t count people who rarely vote or have never voted. And those people are a huge number.

Plus, I saw chart the other day that showed the percentage of people who actually pick up the phone and answer. about 25 or so years ago, used to be about 75% would answer. Now it’s about 2 or 3%, most people have cell phones (not used in polls) or just don’t answer. OR LIE!!!

Polls are not indicative of much, other than if the support is moving. But as far as accuracy...nah.


74 posted on 09/02/2016 12:20:27 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah

And polls don’t really count at all prior to Labor Day weekend and even after that...not all that much anymore.


77 posted on 09/02/2016 12:23:45 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: little jeremiah
...[polls] don’t count people who rarely vote or have never voted. And those people are a huge number.

The questions are where are those people and how many are there really? In Florida, the number of Repub voters increased by 300k since last election. Dems remained about the same, IIRC. If this trend is national, it will be yuge.

123 posted on 09/02/2016 3:40:13 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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