Bas2020 said:
Civilized said:
DrummerboyWolf said:
IseWolf22 said:
All I'm seeing here is the campaign trying to make sure voters don't get complacent and either stay home, or vote 3rd party because they think Biden has an insurmountable lead. They mention the national lead not being important (which is true) and that they are only up a few points in battleground states (also true). But being up by those few points, in most battlegrounds still makes them a heavy favorite.
This actually lends support to Civilized's points about polling bias. The campaign is trying to downplay things because a big lead could cause them to lose voters through complacency. If polls were systematically biased in favor of Biden, they'd be doing his campaign harm
Believe what you want to believe. The polls are flawed and every one knows it.
Flawed this year?
Flawed every cycle?
2018 mid-terms were perhaps the most accurately polled election cycles ever. They sure weren't flawed.
Not sure how that jives with your theory.
Not true.
The Most High Profile Mid Term Race was Gillum vs Desantis.
Polls had Gillum up by 5. Desantis won.
Polls off by 6 pts.
You guys really don't endorse the idea of sufficiently large sample sizes, do you?
Polling isn't broken just because one year, 2016, was a little less accurate than normal.
And polling in 2018 wasn't inaccurate because of one race. How did the dozens of other gubernatorial and congressional races around the country turn out relative to expectations?
Also, you're really not understanding the probabilistic nature of polls. Gillum was actually up closer to 4% and had around a 7 in 9 chance of winning. Desantis had around a 2 in 9 chance of winning.
You run that same race, with those same odds, a bunch of times and Desantis wins 22% of the time. That doesn't make the polls wrong. They're telling you Desantis wins 2 out of 9 times.
Somehow you guys have gotten it in your head that when someone is leading in the polls they're 100% going to win the election, even if they're only leading in the polls by a slim margin by electoral standards.
You're fundamentally misunderstanding how polls work and how they're used to forecast elections.