Election Polls Don T Mean Anything

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Election polls don t mean anything. Nicholas kamm afp getty images want more stories like this. What polls we had in the run up to the election saw muted increases in trump s support among hispanics but not anything like the gains we went on to see. Even polling results that are outside of the margin of error don t necessarily mean what you d think they mean.

Released over the weekend a postdebate poll from nbc news and the wall street journal had joe biden up by 14 points if you ask. My second reason for not trusting the polls is i don t think people will admit who they ll vote for to some random person over. Pollsters don t believe their own results.

In 2016 almost every poll gave hillary clinton the lead over trump but it didn. In florida the swing among hispanics to trump was the largest in the country and not something i believe we ve seen in a presidential election before. And that polls had a 20 bias in a recent canadian election.

Take a look at this graph. Don t believe the election polls. Americans found that out on election night in 2016 when polls predicting victories for hillary clinton in the key swing states of michigan pennsylvania and wisconsin all turned out to be wrong.

Polls are a good tool but they don t mean anything if people don t actually get out there and organize and vote. So we re not looking to show you 25 faulty or fraudulent votes which don t mean anything because it doesn t overturn the state. Going by polls alone the race for the white house is a done deal.