out the Champagne just yet…
And there are TWO big reasons for that:
- Polls are less than fully reliable. I mean, there is a sampling issue that seems impossible to overcome. A TON of people are like me and ONLY have a cell phone–no land line at all. And it is virtually impossible to poll such people. Sure, I can use what I have to “guesstimate” what the numbers really are, but to be honest, I know few people who even have land lines or would pick up if an unknown call came in!
- Even if they will participate, will the person on the line tell the truth? Tell a stranger that they are counter-culture and will vote Trump? It’s kind of a shot in the dark. Back in the late 80s people felt a need to be quite open about things. But I don’t think that is the case now.
And can you blame people for hiding? Look at the culture, for Pete’s sake!
I’m just not sure how these two things, particularly in combination, can fail to render most results meaningless.
Conservatives, run through the tape, not to the tape…