You've been talking for some time about how we've been rewarding mediocrity in our Republican politicians, so why should we accept it from these biased pollsters? I'm not going to suddenly start believing their BS because it's close to an election. And how "close" does that have to be, anyway? Pollsters were predicting a Clinton win at 9PM on election night, '16.
She DID win, according to the popular vote, which is more reflected in the polls. Like I said upthread, it looks like a big miss according to the red/blue board - But a lot of those states on the electoral map were a close call. I readily admit their bias remained, even to the end, calling every lean for Clinton right to the end.
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at the end, the pollsters were pretty close. But that's my point too - they don't matter at the end. The only poll that matters by then is in November.
What matters is that they're jackin with the numbers along the way, trying to influence the race. THAT is why I pay them no mind.