JWeinCom said:
Yeah, it's worth noting, but being a Republican outlet doesn't mean they're necessarily wrong. Good to be skeptical, but without knowing their polling method, can't really say that they're doing anything that would skew the results. |
And yet that's what happens most of the time, so yeah. Maybe it's not the fault of the pollsters themselves but of the cherrypicked results their hirers decide to make public.
Of course, Rasmussen manages to be an exception even then. Their results have always been infamous, though they do present a herding effect from time to time not to be 100% laughed off the scene. They predicted Republicans +1 in 2018 but Democrats won the House by almost 9 points. And yet they defended their results and said they wouldn't change their methodology.
Edit - all that I said, of course, can also be applied to Dem pollsters like Data for Progress & others. You get far less dithering in polls that way.
Last edited by haxxiy - on 21 October 2020
