Trump and Harris is virtual tie in Michigan (Poll)

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11. Wish I could locate the PEW Trust article about how how many people who participate in polls are not eligible voters

Polling is fundamentally broken in this country. The news media needs to treat these polls as simply a tool, albeit one that is wrong more often than right (not enough skepticism about the results).

A poll where people opt in is not a random sample. Neither are polls where they keep calling people until someone answers (who are these people who answer - skew older and more likely to trust unknown callers). I do not see any of these pollsters really accounting for geography either (other than by state). If the country were just one big homogeneous population, their current methods might work. However, these samples are too small to effectively account for these differences (cluster sampling of large samples would help).