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In reply to the discussion: I'm Done [View all]Sympthsical
(10,729 posts)Mid to late October is when I start keeping an eye on them, digging into data, and seeing where trends are going. Early voting is ramping up, and now things will start firming over the next two to three weeks.
It's the most interesting time in election season for me.
Polls are fine. But they should be taken in aggregate. The emotional roller coaster of "We're up! Oh no, we're down! Hurray, we're up! No, we're down and doomed!" is . . . not regulative. If that's how people are reading and responding to polls, it's probably for the best that they don't read them then.
But the conspiracy theories, the misinformation about past polls, the urban myths and group myths surrounding polling with threadbare factual foundation. Yeah, that's coping. People live to cope. And I get it. When emotions are all over the place, coping happens.
But polls are generally fine, and now we're entering spicy season. Pretty exciting for someone like me.
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