This gets said (by somebody) every two years; and yet the pollsters continue to be the high priests of politics, so revered that now when a candidate loses in the face of the polls, it’s the basis for a cry of “FRAUD!”Quite apart from the campaign winners and losers on Tuesday, there's going to be some big winners and losers on the polling side. There are pretty stark differences in the race different classes of pollsters are seeing. Someone's going to be right and someone wrong.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 6, 2022
And everyone blames anyone and anything except our wholly unwarranted respect for the polls.
Sure, Trump exploited it. But we set up this system a long, long time ago. And we continue to live by it, even as it goes septic and turns toxic.
No comments:
Post a Comment