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— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) November 4, 2024
Trump won the day because he’s still in a margin-of-error election — after a week filled with talk of “garbage,” grievances and hell.If the margins of the error are as wrong as I think they will be, Politico will orphan this like Gallup abandoned election forecast polling. The political press has been doing it every year since Dewey defeated Truman.
Add to that the wholly ludicrous idea that Trump’s collapse into idiocy at his rallies should be tracked by polls taken before said rallies, and you have the final nail in the coffin of all political reporting:
It’s just gossip. And like all gossip, it is written by and for the kewl kids. Who will tut-tut over the voters’ final selections, no matter what they are, tell them what those selections mean, and why they once again fell short of the approved and imaginary mark.
Because: “objectivity,” and “if all sides hate us we are above the fray,” and “Kewl Kids Rule (Losers Drool)!”
If Kamala Harris wins especially if she wins big I hope it is a nail in the coffin for political polling, though I doubt that. I especially hope it is the end of the myth of the great and noble free press as the protectors of democracy, something that Jefferson learned was a childish notion when he got a chance to see it in action.
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