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Originally Posted by Redux
There is a huge difference between push polls (Karl Rove was an expert with those) and statistically sampled public opinion polls, with the questions validated for bias in advance, and accounted for in the results.
When you have experience with using valid public opinions polls created by professionals....and see the value....get back to me.
The only point I would concede is that with most of the media polls, they only share the numbers and not the pages of analysis that accompany those numbers and address the biases in both questions and respondents.
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Anyone with a simplistic understanding of statistical measure understand the weakness of polling as having the weakest form of validity. Anyone can study the history of manipulation of media, advertising, or study any miriad of historical examples of the use of polling to sway public opinion and the underbelly of the beast is exposed. So you admit to being part of it, good on you for having the balls to admit that you are part of the BS lies. Congrats.