Posted May 9, 2019, 2:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Horsell
Polls during an election should be outlawed ! They only serve to skew opinion. These polls are only useful if they are district by district, that is they way we elect governments, not by overall popularity. One party could win a district with 99% of the vote and lose two more with only 49%...in the long run they had more votes but still lost.
I think polls also serve to allow people to fall in behind the party they "think" is going to win...sort of letting people bet on a horse race while it is underway...bet on the horse in the lead (Sorry Maximum Security).
And don't forget the poll that had Hillary Clinton leading by about 5% days before the US election...how did that turn out?
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I put no faith in them just due to the small sample size and the margin of error.
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