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Leviathan Song
Sep 8, 2010

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Remain had a healthy lead till a last minute surge from leave left it 2 points ahead in the last polls.

I think what the pollsters are actually referring to is the shy tory effect. Trump brand is toxic so people will say they aren't voting for him to pollsters but might actually vote for him anyway.

Didn't a lot of people make the exact same argument about voting against Obama? I could swear there was a lot of noise about people being afraid of looking racist for voting against the black guy and nothing came of it.

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The Whole Internet
May 26, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Remain had a healthy lead till a last minute surge from leave left it 2 points ahead in the last polls.

I think what the pollsters are actually referring to is the shy tory effect. Trump brand is toxic so people will say they aren't voting for him to pollsters but might actually vote for him anyway.

Many Clinton supporters are reluctant to admit they're supporting her as well. It roughly cancels out. This phenomenon was considered very heavily in 2008. People were wondering if Obama would severely underperform his polling numbers because people might not say they were voting against him, out of fear of appearing racist. Polls ended up being spot on though.

This phenomenon is the reason why Clinton's numbers swell after a bad news cycle for Trump and Trump's numbers swell after a bad news cycle for Clinton. Each side is more likely to report their vote to pollsters when the narrative in the news is being kind to their candidate. People's minds aren't actually changing though, or at least very few are.

Samuel Clemens
Oct 4, 2013

I think we should call the Avengers.

Vox Nihili posted:

COLORADO
President:
Clinton/Kaine (D) 39%
Trump/Pence (R) 39%
Johnson (L) 5%
Stein (G) 4%
(U. of Denver/Crossley Center, LV, 10/29-31)

Blended 50/50 cell/landline poll from a respected institution, apparently.

Getting really sick of this poo poo

Please, like you should trust any poll that has Stein polling above the margin of error. :rolleyes:

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Trump is not going to win Colorado. Democratic EVs were up ~33,000 over GOP, and traditionally Republicans outnumber Democrats in the early vote there.

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!
2 NH polls today showing a slight Trump lead.

This one is supposedly a decent pollster:

Our new NH poll for @WBUR: Trump 40% Clinton 39% Johnson 10% Stein 3% . Ayotte 51% Hassan 45% 10/29-11/1

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Suffolk U just came out and has them tied (and only 5% for Johnson). Are either of these the one that had Hillary up 15 like two weeks ago?

E: apparently they had her up 2 earlier in October so who knows

Badger of Basra has issued a correction as of 19:56 on Nov 3, 2016

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!

Badger of Basra posted:

Suffolk U just came out and has them tied (and only 5% for Johnson). Are either of these the one that had Hillary up 15 like two weeks ago?

E: apparently they had her up 2 earlier in October so who knows

That's extremely bad.

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Pomplamoose
Jun 28, 2008

Prorat posted:

Now that the polls have been proven to be bullshit, why is this thread not closed?

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/762497721831874561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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