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I can't say that polls have ever "excited" me. But yes, I think properly done polls are the best way we have to gauge popular attitudes short of voting.
Occasional polling failures don't negate that. I am pretty sure that both the RNC and DNC are still paying for regular internal polling, just as they have always done.
No one loves polls. And polls are only as good as the people who design them, and the people who conduct them.
But, yes, sometimes they're not accurate. Sometimes it's because things change, sometimes it's because people lie, sometimes it's because the wrong questions were asked.
Anyway, professionally done polls are useful, interpretation can be tricky. And yes sometimes they miss, there is always that chance. "Dewey Defeats Truman" comes to mind.
Even the Donald believes in polls, every time one is favorable to him he crows about it. He is quiet now but when one comes up in his favor you will see what I mean. So let's not kid ourselves.
So some obscure blog published a poll over a YEAR AGO that turned out wrong. With everything else that's going on, that's the best you cons can come up with to distract the rest of us? Sorry, you're going to have to do better than that.
Poles have been used since slavery, to keep them in line.
Polls just jab and poke.
Lot of jabber and lots of poke.
Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber - Poke Poke Poke.
A pig in the sky is like pie in the sty, or something.
"A pig that's in a poke might turn out to be no pig at all. If a merchant tried to cheat by substituting a lower value animal, the trick could be uncovered by letting the cat out of the bag. Many other European languages have a version of this phrase - most of them translating into English as a warning not to 'buy a cat in a bag'. The advice has stood the test of time and people have been repeating it in one form or the other for getting on for five hundred years, maybe longer."
Last edited by Hyperthetic; 07-04-2017 at 11:17 PM..
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