Why are internal polls distrusted?

[morgankingsley]

This election made me just not care about approval ratings or polls. They are totally just meaningless statistics for me now. Trump showed they don't matter

[morgankingsley]

This election made me just not care about approval ratings or polls. They are totally just meaningless statistics for me now. Trump showed they don't matter

Because the polls were mildly wrong once.

It is not a right or wrong issue as much as about me just deciding that I am going to just go into things you know, open minded, instead of deciding how something is going to go down right from the start. I will sit down and let the results come in as they do. There is nothing wrong with that. I am not going to let some predetermined number decide what I should think for an election. Besides, I didn't even pay attention to the polls even before the election because I always just decided to be more open about stuff like that. If you don't like that, we can disagree, but I just have my own personal opinion on that. I never paid attention to the polls and I never will, because in the end the only vote that matters is the vote on election day, end of story

[morgankingsley]

This is basically the worst and most dangerous attitude a Republican could have going into 2020.

I must say it is quite interesting to see a republican from Massachusetts.

Depends on what you mean by "worst" and "Dangerous."  If you mean that republicans are going to think they are fine and not vote at all, then yeah you are right. But if they already had plans to vote anyways, then this I don't feel is too much the case. I was going to vote no matter what. I don't know for who, but I still plan to. That being said, I guess I shouldn't say they don't matter anymore. I will retract myself there. But I will pay attention more to word of mouth and the election day numbers than what people say on internet polls. I might consider them, but they will still not be my ultimate decider