@dauphin87 The pollsters know who to poll to get the results they want.
@GeezerWench @dauphin87 Exactly. It's literally the Dewey-Truman effect but they know about it and are deliberately using it to show close polling
@dauphin87 Let me also suggest this: How many of us answer calls from unknown numbers?
Exactly.
Now imagine John (Low I)Q Trump-voter.
I imagine it's REALLY easy to manipulate the numbers however a pollster wants. Enough said.
@danielbsmith @dauphin87 In addition, there are phone polls. generalizing isn't great but -- Boomers and older tend to answer the phone when it rings. (Not me!) Younger people tend not to. I think results are skewed quite a bit due to that.
"People who tend to pick up any and all phone calls tend to be older, conservative, less wealthy and less educated..." (maga)
https://www.pbs.org/publiceditor/blogs/pbs-public-editor/the-problem-with-polls/