(The Center Square) – After failing to hold news conferences or give live interviews, and flipping on a range of issues, Vice President Kamala Harris is now slightly trailing former
That’s what push polls are for, to inflate the numbers for their own side while discouraging the opposing side.
And even those polls which aren’t intended to skew the results are going to be shifted to meet the expectations of the pollster as they try to adjust the data to reflect what they think is a representative sample of likely voters.
Trump rising in the polls is making my stomach churn. Having a bit of hope was nice while it lasted, I guess.
Don’t freak out. It’s a single poll, and given trends, it looks like an outlier.
And remember that polling is still pretty fucked right now.
That’s what push polls are for, to inflate the numbers for their own side while discouraging the opposing side.
And even those polls which aren’t intended to skew the results are going to be shifted to meet the expectations of the pollster as they try to adjust the data to reflect what they think is a representative sample of likely voters.
Don’t bother looking at polls. Go out and vote.