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Author Topic: Can this Forum stop freaking out over a small shift in polling?  (Read 1391 times)
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« on: August 29, 2020, 08:39:17 PM »

Unfortunately no, because we're all political junkies who are either scarred after 2016 or really just want to see Trump win. We tend to accept evidence that aligns most closely with our perspective mentally, while rejecting all other evidence.
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2020, 08:48:13 PM »

Red avatars should be more like Blue avatars—lurk silently on the forum when the other guy is leading by double-digits and then pop up out of nowhere as the first poster on any poll or post containing good news for the candidate they support.

Somehow MN being tied by a pollster notorious for overestimating Republicans that literally inflates Trumps vote % means that MN is all of a sudden competative, despite either higher quality polls show Biden with a comfortable lead and most all other evidence suggesting Biden will win MN. When Biden LEADS by 2 points in a MO poll, no one seems to care, and the poll is written off as junk. There's clearly a bias in how we treat polling this cycle.
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