"Polls are not a prediction for who’s going to win, but a snapshot in time”
I have a friend who is always sending me polls — polls about Trump, polls about the national state of happiness, polls about Israel, even polls about polls (polls generally give polls low polling).
I’m always asking him why he ritualistically follows these polls when they’re constantly wrong.
“You’re getting polling wrong,” he says. “Polls are not a prediction for who’s going to win, but a snapshot in time.”
They’re just proving to be a snapshot of the liberal mind. The margin of error may as well be, oh, 30%. Or more? How can a slow drumroll of polls that predict week after week, month after month, that Trump will lose in a landslide — with not a single poll the establishment will care to endorse saying otherwise — and then the real poll of actual, real-life people comes out and he’s within a Scaramucci of winning reelection?
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