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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pollsters are having a really hard time figuring out the accurate sample for who actually shows up to vote on Election Day. Especially post-Roe, where Democrats are over-performing the polls by 5-15 points on Election Day, even in deeply red districts.

In short, pollsters - due their PTSD from 2016 where they were so off the mark - are oversampling Republicans and Trump supporters in particular.

Good read on the issue:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-can-election-2024-polls-really-tell-us/

I think this is particular is the crux of the issue:

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We face a momentous presidential election year in 2024, with polling caught in a feedback loop: Response rates—a measure of how many participate in a poll—are declining. Declining response rates lead to a greater likelihood of polling error, which in turn leads to greater mistrust in polls. Mistrust in polls leads to even lower response rates. And the cycle continues.
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Third, election polls have a unique characteristic not encountered in any other survey: they survey a population that does not (yet) exist. Election pollsters must predict who will actually vote. Their likely-voter models tend to be 80 percent accurate, leaving quite a bit of imprecision in deciding who among those polled should actually count in a “horse race” estimate.[/quote]

More and more people are declining to answer polls, so pollsters have more difficulty achieving a representative sample of the voting age population. Those who do answer polls tend to probably fit into certain demographic buckets that have time to answer the phone and speak with a random person (older, poorer, unemployed). Sorry, but I think you're a rube and a sucker if you sit on the phone and answer a political poll. It's the same naïve people who talk to scammers in Africa or Asia. [/quote]

I think about this every time I get a text about a poll or campaign solicitations. Why on earth would I not just block and delete?[/quote]

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