If the polling is this wacky, why bother publishing it at all?

Over the weekend, ABC and the Washington Post published the results of a poll that made both operations look like its results were the product of a month-long exercise with a Magic 8-Ball. The way you know it was an embarrassment is the Post story about the poll began by telling us all we should probably ignore it completely.

The Post-ABC poll shows Biden trailing Trump by 10 percentage points at this early stage in the election cycle, although the sizable margin of Trump’s lead in this survey is significantly at odds with other public polls that show the general election contest a virtual dead heat. The difference between this poll and others, as well as the unusual makeup of Trump’s and Biden’s coalitions in this survey, suggest it is probably an outlier.

    • GodlessCommie@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Democrats are gonna give us trump, then blame Russia or some bullshit. Clinton has already been priming the rabid dogs about Russian interference again. Thats how fascism works, they need a weak liberal party to convince the plebs they are fighting for them while they are colluding with conservatives to keep pushing right.