I will say it: I’ve always been addicted to polls. Long before rcp and nate and all the rest of them I was a polling addict. But I keep seeing people saying how there’s going to be a “reckoning” because pollsters and models were at least off to an extent in 2020.
2/ It’s not clear they’re actually wildly off. But who cares really? Obviously professional pollsters care. And if internal campaign polls are making big errors that’s a problem for campaigns. But I’m seeing it discussed as though it’s some big **political** problem.
3/ Or it’s even a problem with Democrats ability to appeal to rural America. But what does it really have to do with anything. I certainly like feeling like I have some sense of what’s going to happen on election night. But why does it matter? Why does it matter for winning ...
4/ elections or being involved in politics? Why do we as civic minded people or political junkies need to worry about “fixing” political polling? Is it our problem? Do we need it to be fixed?
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