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 Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
Hold the indoctrination for a second.
Assume the polls are polls. No need to keep calling fake for no reason; they do poll people, after all.
The data is real, the news is not real. The transition from real data to not real news happens in the translation process, where most pollsters (not all, some are good) use methodology that tends towards a favorable result instead of reflecting reality. Here's an example:
Most of the polls for 2016 used Obama turnout numbers with blacks. Everybody knew that was not going to happen. The pollsters and aggregators who were using that methodology previous said that would not happen. But they still published news based on it. The answer for why they did that is unknown. Some think it's because favorable poll results help sway elections; some think it's because they were caught up in a hallucination and acted incompetently because of it.
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