For the second time in four years, the experts at political polling have utterly failed to accurately predict the outcome of an election. They were wrong about the presidency, the Senate and the House. Politico.com says we should “blow up” the polling industry.
Bill Whittle thinks they did their job. What do you think?
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19 replies on “Blow Up the Polling Industry: Will America Tolerate Second Epic Fail in Four Years?”
In Real Time Americans are seeing the “fundamental transformation of America.”
I agree with Steve… no, wait, I agree with Bill… oh no, I agree with Scott!
This is a perfect example of why I love Right Angle… three guys with radically different perspectives (blind men describing the elephant).
Sure gonna miss not meeting up w/ you guys in ‘real life’, in the flesh…
Bill is right. It’s all about bring down the system… and thus the nation.
do not go the way of the pollster, he will take you down a path of disinformation and lies to promote his own agenda. Sorous has spent millions of dollars to do such. Do not believe him.
I handle all pollsters the same way………..”click”.
The default ringtone on my phone is silent. So, unless I’ve assigned a specific ringtone to a contact, I never even know anyone calls. If it’s important, they’ll leave voicemail.
If Biden wins, it will be a hollow victory. He put in NO effort. Nothing he did contributed to his win. He will always be remembered that way. A puppet to his masters. Then Harris…she will think she is the one that pushed Biden over the finish line. She will revel in that no matter how untrue. (The very thought of her as president is too much to even imagine.) Fox News is dead. The real winners are the pollsters and the investors in the news shows, the people who filled out phony ballots, and Soros. They are all patting themselves on their backs. They did what they set out to do.
I have not talked to one single Democrat person who is happy about the election. There is no glory. It all feels dirty. Trump has about 3 months to clean things up. I am going to stand behind him. America was robbed.
When only 2% of people called actually respond to a poll, then a poll ceases to be useful for the purposes of prediction. Therefore another reason for continuing to do polls must exists. There are two theories proposed in this episode: 1 is to promote the organization conducting the polling ( A CBS New poll shows. . . ) the second is to form opinion. If Joe Biden is ahead, then maybe I should vote for him because other people are and I want to as well. Or the converse, he is so far ahead it doesn’t matter if I vote.
I propose a third: It’s easy fill for 24 hours news. Going into depth on issues takes effort; mental and physical. One has to go out and talk to people to find out what matters, think about how to present what is found and then write it up or show it. That is actual work. Calling a bunch of people and reporting the results. Easy. And it fills 5 minutes to report the results and let your talking heads discuss. No effort required. Repeat 10 times during the day maybe even with different heads doing the talking.
I think it is just laziness. And since as Tucker pointed out, nobody holds them accountable for accuracy, lather rinse repeat.
I would add what Ben Rhodes, Obama’s National Security/Communication and Speechwriter said. I paraphrase, “Your average reporter is 27 and ignorant. We just tell them what we are doing and why and they go out and repeat it.”
It is called The Epoch Times Scott. Read it if you want great reporting.
A few weeks ago I read or heard somewhere (maybe here?) that Frank Luntz (the pollster) said that if the polls got it wrong this time, the polling industry was done.
“Scott Ott, Stephen Green and Scott Ott make 20 new episodes of Right Angle each month …”
When you are Web McMaster you can give yourself double billing, huh Scott? 😉
Well, he does play a Liberal after all.
I didn’t hear that, I checked out the beginning ‘credits’ and the ending pitch… where did I miss it? Or is this your way of ‘trolling’ Scott, if so, it was good!
Oh, I watched again… and it wasn’t in the episode, it was in the written description before the video! Good catch!
Yeah, it’s in the text on this page above the video. It’s an innocent typo that I was just making fun of. Poor Scott is sometimes a tad overworked methinks.
The whole point was to set the tone. In that regard, as a form of voter supression, it was very successful.
I live in Rhode Island. I could argue that it isn’t worth my time going to the polls, because it is a forgone conclusion that the democrat candidate will win. But, I always go to vote. Sometimes I hold my nose and vote, and sometimes I vote enthusiastically. I don’t know how many Trump supporters decided to stay home, given the overwhelming enthusiasm in the lead up to the election. I’m more inclined to believe massive vote harvesting took place, made exponentially easier with massive early, and mail in voting.
I live in California, and I could say the same thing…
…except with every election, there is more on the ballot (local elections, proposals) than the top of the ticket. That is the real reason I still go and vote, I’m not throwing away my vote there…
It goes waaaaay beyond polls. But you know that.