• juicy@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    Polls are wildly conflicting. A recent Rasmussen survey found that Biden trails Trump regardless of third-party candidates.

    In a two-way contest between Biden and Trump, 49% of likely US voters said they would choose Trump, and 41% would vote for Biden. That was a marginal increase for Trump since February, when he led by six points.

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      7 months ago

      Rasmussen polls always tilt a few points slightly Republican for some reason. It’s not necessarily malicious, but something in their methodology.

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        I refuse to believe it’s not by design. They’ve known the issue for years and others have produced far less biased polling

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        They used to call landlines, which most polling outlets gave up since that will always tilt the results older/conservative.

        Not sure if that’s still their process, but with the wide gap here, i’m betting it is.

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          I highly doubt they’d be crappy enough to keep that up. Nobody does polls like that now

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            Looks like they are still using landlines as part of their method:

            To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel.

            They claim to offset this with various corrections, but it seems landlines are the only numbers they call.

            Very much still in use.

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        Most people younger than 40 dont answer phones, so i assume thats probably part of it.

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      7 months ago

      “This poll run by far right people says Biden is losing!” Shocker lol. They’re always skewed R

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        It amazes me how many people seem to forget how much the polls played in Trump’s victory. The media practically encouraged people it 2ould be such a landslide for Hillary that people didn’t bother to vote. Trump has never won an election. The fucking removed running the DNC keep losing elections by their own incompetence. I feel like we keep living out the episode of Avenue 5 where the actor playing the captain in a TV sitcom wins the fucking election. We haven’t had a deserving president since Obama and in THIS election I would vote for Baldwin’s SNL Trump over either of the geriatric fucks who are actually running.