Polls show Biden will win - like Hillary, right? Opinion

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  1. Bowerbird

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    MANY more voters! Seems that the polarisation under Trump has energised the people

    One of the many advantages of having mandatory voting (we kind of have to have it or no bastard would bother) Is we know exactly how many will vote and plan accordingly.

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    Plus we do preferential voting (like ranked voting) and because the government will fine your arse if you are not enrolled to vote we have the most accurate electoral rolls anywhere
     
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    Hillary wins in a landslide!
     
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    CenterField Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The But Hillary defense won't work. She is not running, and this situation is different than 2016 in many ways.
     
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    Why won't the Hillary defense work? ...Was it was bogus to begin with?
     
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    Because the situation now is far different. She lost. She is not running this time. For one thing, Biden is not as rejected by the population as Hillary was. Second, the pollsters have learned with their mistakes and are not under-polling the populations they didn't consult sufficiently in 2016, so the polls are more accurate now, and they are showing Biden ahead by much more than Hillary had at this point. Suburban women are turning against Trump, white blue-collar workers (some of them) are turning against Trump, seniors are turning against Trump... Biden is not making the mistakes Hillary did (e.g., neglecting the Rust Belt), and so on.
     
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    But did they really? Not by 2018 I suppose. Agreed? :D

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    Oops LOL

    PS believing the garbage you read in swamp media (which includes fake polls claiming they're not fake polls) may prove devastating on the election day. Duh.
     
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    polls only show who most voters will vote for, they were right in 2016

    what they do not take into account is that not all votes are equal, some are worth more than others
     
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    We'll see about that. I predict that you'll be the one who will be devastated.
     
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    Pools in swing states are pointing to an Electoral College victory for Biden, too. CNN analyzed state by state and concluded that Biden will get at least 290 EC votes even if he only does the bare minimum in terms of conserving current advantages.
     
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    Polls are skewed to assume more democrats than republicans based on earlier polls that were skewed to assume more democrats than republicans.

    Political polling in general is something between a feedback loop and a circle jerk, with some common core math tossed in for good measure.
     
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    we certainly will see. Meanwhile your "prediction" that the pollsters have learned their 2016 lesson has been totally destroyed by my example, they were just as clueless in 2018... which makes your OP a huge FAIL.

    Your unwavering faith in them, despite their record of never ending failures and deliberate statistical manipulations for political purposes is cute though.
     
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    Pollsters learned nothing but how.to skew results.
     
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    Polls can be skewed. But what we do know is that there are a lot of Trump voters who won’t take polls or lie due to backlash. I wouldn’t trust some stranger with my voting preference because I don’t know what that person will do with it? It’s already a fact that your job and relationships can be destroyed by a Right leaning viewpoint. Liberals are the most intolerant on the planet right now and have no qualms about severing ties with people who disagree with them. It’s very disturbing. I don’t know a single conservative person who cares if someone they love leans left. But I know many on the Left who won’t talk to you if you admitted you have ANY positive reaction to anything Trump is ever done. It’s pure sickness. I know Jews who can’t even support what he’s done for Israel. They’ll sooner support murdering Palestinians than they would any Trump policy. TDS is real and it’s scary.
     
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    Pollsters learned to double down. They think the mistake last time was not going bigger and suppressing the Trump vote more.
     
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    But this far out they mirrored current polling
     
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    They still over sample demo and suburban women.
     
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    [QUOTE="Bowerbird, post: 1072128482, member: 17234"]Or pull some sort of last minute surprise like the Comey did with the Clinton Emails

    To be honest, this time, even if they could show Biden standing over a dead man with a gun in his hand I don’t think it would change people’s minds - Trump has become that toxic. I was just listening to Olberman talk about Sen Sasses comments on Trump

    Expect more GOP senators to Run down the anchor rope before the ship sinks[/QUOTE]
    And now we have the Hunter Biden emails
     
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    It was democrats who cried fraud last election and will again.
     
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    Best route to socialism is to force stupid uninformed people to vote
     
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    And this guy pretends to be in the center. LMAO
     
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    The pollster's reputation (if such thing still exists) is measured by his final poll as it's the only poll verifiable by the actual vote count, the accuracy (or lack of it) of prior polls is .simply unprovable.

    They know that very well and their non-final polls are nothing but blatant statistical manipulation, aka garbage.

    Just watch how these polls will suddenly start "tightening" in the next 2 weeks.
     
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    Yes, you have them.

    In a normal world, this kind of "scandal" could have done some damage to a politician's candidacy.

    But since 2016, we no longer live in a normal world.

    We now live in a world where politics prevails over values and candidate behavior.

    So this little story with Hunter is nothing compared to the Hollywood tapes, the $25 million Trump paid to compensate the 1600 students he defrauded in his fake university, his hush money to buy the silence of a porn star he slept with while his wife was pregnant and so many others...

    If all this is acceptable today, it's thanks to Donald Trump.
     
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    Oh yeah, they missed ONE race and you call 2018 a total failure, LOL. The predictions, for example from 538, that the Dems would take the House but fail to take the Senate, were damn accurate. Anyway, it's not unwavering faith; it's just that they seem to be more accurate this time around. And even if they aren't, the lead favoring Biden is so huge now, that even if by election day it narrows, he should still win. Unless, of course, Trump manages to challenge in court claiming groundless fraud and his buddies in the Judiciary rescue him, which I'm positive he will at least try, and may very well succeed. But Trump winning fair and square? Sorry, it's not going to happen. We'll save this thread and come back to it to see who will eat crow, you or me. I strongly predict it will be you, regardless of your sarcastic take, right now. Mark my words. If it's me, though, I'll eat the bitter bird like a man.
     
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    Your opinion is noted and dismissed.
     
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    Being head of a corrupt crime family thats in the pocket of China matters to real Americans.
     
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