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[–] 11 points 3 days ago

Don't forget how useless polls are: Hillary was going to win it was 98% certain, Kamala was going to win Iowa by as much as 14 points. Neither of these things happened.

Polls were always shitty because of small sample size but nowadays they're probably being gamed by bad actors as well. And we've known that some people lie to save face: there was some legislation in California (think it was anti-immigration or something) and when they surveyed voters these people over-whelming said they were voting against it. Come election day the measure passes.

What happened? Well turns out the populace actually liked the law but they also didn't want people to know they supported something that could be viewed as bigoted. So when some stranger called then and asked what they thought about it they lied to save face, while deep down they knew they were going to vote for it because it served their self interest.

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