Thread by @Peoples_Pundit

Wait, I’ve been told that I have “greatly exaggerated” the failures of this industry.

Lol.

Here’s an idea to reach a “consensus” on what went wrong. Ask someone who didn’t screw it up — again — then shut up, and listen to them. politico.com/news/2021/04/1…

I feel as if we've been down this road before.

Pollsters screw up, majorly, refuse to listen to those who did not, smear them instead, put on cute conventions exclusively with the screw ups, listen to them about why they screwed up, then screw up again.

Rinse. Repeat cycle.

The industry should take grandma’s advice: if you want to be better at something or a better person, then surround yourself with people better than you, and learn from them.

Screw ups can’t tell other screw ups how not to screw up. Losers can’t tell other losers how to win.

While I applaud the effort and public statement, they just can’t seem to get out of their own way. Their ideology and overall worldview prevents them seeing the entire picture, even when they’re generally headed in the right direction.

For instance, yes, Covid-19 lockdowns...

For instance, yes, Covid-19 lockdowns did impact the polls, but not in the way their bias has directed them to think.

Online panels were bombarded by Jeffrey Pull Your Toobin and Karen Catastrophe-like professional class people who had nothing else to do with their time.

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Their claim that Trump and Republican voters were more difficult to reach because they didn’t comply with restrictions, is intellectually feeble.

You call cellphones, right? You can read an email when you’re not home, right?

I have myriad other points to demolish that argument.