Poll Shopping
You walk into a store at random, head directly to the nearest shelf, and take the object upon which your hand first sets itself.
You then pay for the object, then proceed at random again to a restuarant, where you vaguely point at the menu without looking, and eat whatever you are given.
A person would be daft to call the first example shopping, or the second dining. A certain amount of consideration ought to go into these decisions, most of us would agree.
So then, when a poll is presented, but it has no supporting data, no demographics, no internal trend data, and especially if the operator admits he has used different methodologies at different times this year, you are not looking at a poll at all, but only an advertisement for the operator’s ego, with no substance or rational reason, whatsoever, to believe what is presented.
Just something to consider as we close in to the Election Day itself.
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