• aelwero@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It’s pie in the sky to have polls this early, and even if it wasn’t wildly premature to look at polls, they aren’t great at actually predicting the outcome, because the people who conduct polls have a tendency towards polling people and areas that’ll tell them what they want to hear…

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      10 months ago

      It’s also a live telephone poll. This type of pole has a lot of trouble getting a representative sample of people under the age of 40.