I’m baffled by the polling just reported. It’s the exact opposite of polls that came out last week. When you see the opposite results from two polls just days apart, you gotta wonder about their accuracy and validity.
May I respectfully ask a question? Who are the people being polled and by what method? Text, email, calls to cellphones? Let's be reminded this is 2024. Unlike the "olden" days, land lines are no longer the preferred method of contact; and I don't know about you, but I do not respond to the gazillion political texts/calls I get from random numbers. We've learned polls can definitely be wrong. Let's not get sucked into the polling black hole.
Kim, it's so hard constantly being bombarded by the negative. It's time to be the grownups in the room, sweep away the bogeyman, and accentuate the differences between 2016-2020 and 2020-2024. There are so many positives in the latter. I'm proud to go with Joe!
Yeah, I know. And so should NBC. But what purpose do these polls serve? For one thing, it’s an easy headline. Not news, really, but poll results passing themselves as news. And maybe they help stimulate campaign. Gosh, can you imagine a corporate media outlet trying to promote stories that are profitable?
I’ve seen that. Maybe we are doomed to a dictatorship. Or maybe the polls continue to suffer the same flaw… basically an extremely narrow sample of people who answer unknown callers. Either way, I have just sent another donation to the Biden campaign.
I’m baffled by the polling just reported. It’s the exact opposite of polls that came out last week. When you see the opposite results from two polls just days apart, you gotta wonder about their accuracy and validity.
May I respectfully ask a question? Who are the people being polled and by what method? Text, email, calls to cellphones? Let's be reminded this is 2024. Unlike the "olden" days, land lines are no longer the preferred method of contact; and I don't know about you, but I do not respond to the gazillion political texts/calls I get from random numbers. We've learned polls can definitely be wrong. Let's not get sucked into the polling black hole.
Pam, you are at the heart of the matter. I get a gazillion texts and calls from “unknown’ sources. I ignore and block them.
And you’re right. Polling has not proven itself to be particularly reliable over the past 8 years.
Kim, it's so hard constantly being bombarded by the negative. It's time to be the grownups in the room, sweep away the bogeyman, and accentuate the differences between 2016-2020 and 2020-2024. There are so many positives in the latter. I'm proud to go with Joe!
Agree totally!
Sarah Longwell seems to say frequently that we should ignore polling this far out. And she should know.
Yeah, I know. And so should NBC. But what purpose do these polls serve? For one thing, it’s an easy headline. Not news, really, but poll results passing themselves as news. And maybe they help stimulate campaign. Gosh, can you imagine a corporate media outlet trying to promote stories that are profitable?
Quinnipiac is the outlier. Virtually every other poll has Trump ahead.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/
I’ve seen that. Maybe we are doomed to a dictatorship. Or maybe the polls continue to suffer the same flaw… basically an extremely narrow sample of people who answer unknown callers. Either way, I have just sent another donation to the Biden campaign.
The one thing I took from the Quinnipiac poll was the data on the growing gender gap. That is not good news for Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4440504-2024-election-biden-leads-trump-growing-gender-gap-quinnipiac-poll/