Interesting comment from “don’t tread on me”,
I hang up on all pollsters and here’s why: The MSM, especially TV, is basically a large advertising industry. That is where the money is. When advertising something like ivory soap (99.44% pure, almost as white as Senator Warren), the company paying for the advertisements gets very good feedback on the effectiveness of the advertisements in their sales volume.
The people running the TV news media need/want feedback on the effectiveness of their news stories. They want to know if their news stories are having the desired effect of swaying voters in their desired direction. That is why they pay for the pollsters. They want to know if the voters are responding to their news stories. They use this information to tune their new stories. This is why they don’t care about the pollster’s accuracy in predicting elections. They care about changes in people’s opinion so they can learn how to sway the voters to vote their way.
I don’t want to help them change elections so I hang up on all pollsters so they lose track of how to sway the elections.
Has polling always been a twice weekly endeavor? It seems that updated polls come out every other day now, and for what purpose? Do candidates need hourly voter feedback via polling? Or, as this commenter writes, is it media that needs feedback from the polls to refine their Leftoid Narrative? Most polling outfits are affiliated with Big Chaimstream Media congolmerates. It’s an incestuous relationship that should really raise a lot more eyebrows than it does.
We live in a simulation, a sort of post-culture, when people don’t read news anymore to be informed; the people inform the media via polling and other feedback mechanisms what kind of news emotionally resonates with them, and the media crafts their news stories to push people to feel emotions that align with the media’s objectives. The flood of single women into the media consumer market is why we get shit like “the Republicans’ woman problem” and never its equally true opposite “the Democrats’ man problem”.