• Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    That’s what push polls are for, to inflate the numbers for their own side while discouraging the opposing side.

    And even those polls which aren’t intended to skew the results are going to be shifted to meet the expectations of the pollster as they try to adjust the data to reflect what they think is a representative sample of likely voters.