@LnzyHou what are you thinking?
@LnzyHou @dauphin87 Thank you.
@dauphin87 god I hope so. Because the only other reason I can think of is that some significant proportion of the US populace is just straight up fascist.
@dauphin87 nah. you're forgetting stupid fucking peeps.
racism.
intolerance.
religious indoctrination.
cult of personality.
etc.
it's not just media. not at all.
@dauphin87 The pollsters know who to poll to get the results they want.
@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/
@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.
@dauphin87 That and the polls being essentially dishonest
@dauphin87
Right wing media is the dominant media in the country now.
@dauphin87 I do not for one second believe this is a close race. Listen don't look. The polls are manipulated to suit the narrative. Listen and you will here the sound of change.
@dauphin87 After this is all said and done, yes, we must hold our media to account. No more foreign ownership for starters. And they can be corporate donors. Media needs to be out of the business of being the mouthpiece for the flavor of the day.
@Tacitus_Kilgore @dauphin87 all corporate donors should be banned. elections should be 6 weeks or less & publicly financed. political parties need to go away, & rank choice voting instituted in all states
@Tacitus_Kilgore @dauphin87 i don't believe it's a close race, but i do see things being set up by one side to manipulate & challenge the results
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Not buying the tightness. Polls are BS. On both sides.