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The ones that tend to confirm our own bias
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Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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They ALL rely on the honesty of the peoples, so...........
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Polls, all of them, are designed to shape public opinion, not to reflect it.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, an Obama phone, free health insurance. and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime.
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+1. Even if they're done well they don't reflect who's gonna show up and vote.
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69
Pro-Constitution.
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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Does it matter?
Regardless of the polls - go out and vote and vote red. All there is too it - don't let the noise of polls/pundits and (likely) lawyers get you off that task.
Go vote.
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Over the years Rasmussen seems to get it fairly well.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubt" Bertrand Russell
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Pew Research had an interesting piece on poll accuracy a while back. One of the main drivers of what I call 'bad info' is the steady decline of people who will participate in the poll. Busy people do not participate...which brings up all kinds of questions...are they working people? Do those who do participate fit in a category of stay at homes, retirees, soap opera day tv watchers (maybe on the govt dole)? One thing researchers noted, those who willingly participate are community spirited volunteers, raising a whole other set of questions. What demographics have a landline anymore? For pollsters to access cell phones, the numbers, by law, must be manually dialed....so cell polling is time consuming and expensive.
If I were to have to condense the whole article, it sounds like polling is inaccurate and getting worse every year.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
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Polls, all of them, are designed to shape public opinion, not to reflect it. Nailed it!
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Don't believe any of the polls. Act like a demoRat. Vote early and often.
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I have never been polled and don't know of anyone who has, where do they come up with this stuff?
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I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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None.
I lie on those all the time.
DON’T BE TOO PROUD OF THIS TECHNOLOGICAL TERROR YOU’VE CONSTRUCTED. THE ABILITY TO DESTROY A PLANET IS INSIGNIFICANT NEXT TO THE POWER OF THE FORCE.
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NONE I don't pay attention to polls.
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Polls, all of them, are designed to shape public opinion, not to reflect it. Yep
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The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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