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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Wisconsin 4-month run-up: Clinton leads by 6 points ... until Nov. 8: [View all]uponit7771
(90,677 posts)47. Polsters response: "...well, that's a rational question...but fuck you ok? go fuck off k? " /sarcasm
Cause that's about what we're hearing from these polsters ... a buncha fuck you America... please believe us next time type of responses
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No they weren't. Private companies programmed the machines before 1 off was ever cast
onecaliberal
Nov 2016
#81
As I stated before, the polls weren't wrong. Just the data sets which were used in these data sets
Exilednight
Nov 2016
#11
No, they used some shit from mars... they pulled DPutins LV out of their asses and threw them on
uponit7771
Nov 2016
#52
Yes, every single one of those polls were wrong according to the msm... all the polling science
uponit7771
Nov 2016
#48
Even Nate Silver cautioned a couple days ahead of the election that HRC's lead was pretty thin...
Hassin Bin Sober
Nov 2016
#68
It's NOT the polls that were wrong. It was the people interpreting the poll numbers.
Exilednight
Nov 2016
#20
Campaign was presumably getting the same polling results showing these states were safe.
LisaL
Nov 2016
#26
One didn't need polls to know she wasn't doing all that well with rural white voters.
LisaL
Nov 2016
#77
Which is based off of data sets. It's not guess work. Polls showed that voter turnout was going to
Exilednight
Nov 2016
#39
Social scence does include art, it just studies it. I've also never met a pollster that will tell
Exilednight
Nov 2016
#36
I do realize it. The implication is that any pollster that says polling is an art is going to get
Exilednight
Nov 2016
#44
There are lists of people who broke down the same polls and came up with how this election would
Exilednight
Nov 2016
#49
Palast warned us in August about the crosscheck purge but none of us screamed loud enough
KewlKat
Nov 2016
#87
Same in other battleground states, same rigorous, accurate polling in all of them.
Coyotl
Nov 2016
#4
Polsters response: "...well, that's a rational question...but fuck you ok? go fuck off k? " /sarcasm
uponit7771
Nov 2016
#47
Obviously WI and MI are swing states because they swung republican this election.
LisaL
Nov 2016
#73