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Better Days Ahoy

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4. 100%. I'm fed up with pollsters and poll aggregators

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 8, 2022, 07:36 AM

Nov 2022

Self-congratulatory and self-promoting.

Reminds me of a situation with a new building construction we were insuring in Manhattan:
The plumbing contractor's workers kept smashing the toilets so that the job wouldn't end and they'd keep getting paid. And we paid the "vandalism" claims every time.

Pollsters and aggregators create the need for their imperfect products , then underwhelm. We're better off without 90% of them.

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If The Polls Are So Bad, How Have We Forecasted 101 out of the last 107 Senate Races Accurately? [View all] tgards79 Nov 2022 OP

People do not get motivated by bad polls gab13by13 Nov 2022 #1

100%. I'm fed up with pollsters and poll aggregators Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #4

Part of the problem is that the polls become the headline Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #2

REALLY THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 LenaBaby61 Nov 2022 #3

I never see polling .... LenaBaby61 Nov 2022 #6

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This 100% Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #7

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I can't change the polls, but I can cast my ballot. Midnight Writer Nov 2022 #9