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Gwhittey

(1,377 posts)
9. The why polls work is flawed
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 10:45 AM
Mar 2016

For many reasons.
1. Most are using same old Land Line calling lists.
2. The poll people like Clinton camp don't know there is the internet.
3. The polls are random calls from a list of voters that voted in the last DNC primary. 2008
Tell me how many college ages people voted in last 2008. That is why polls are throwing numbers so off except in the South
Which as we have seen African American vote is major block that HRC used with media lies to get the vote for her.

So point #3 is biggest factor IMO because the young crowd now is a higher population that boomers since the end of WW2. And most of polls forget that fact and leave them out. That is why Sanders camp is using alternate means to access this young mainly first time voters. Like using HS class ring buyers as a calling list.

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