i'm hoping that this election ends polling for good as an industry
it's nothing but grifters and con artists, making a career out of nothing. polling is completely meaningless
They won't admit their methodology is outdated. Nobody has landlines, large percentages of millennials and Gen-Xers are too socially retarded to answer calls from numbers they don't recognize, and the country is too split on partisan lines. In the last few months we're seen polls show Biden up by double digits with senior voters (60+ years old), Trump up by double digits with young voters (20-35 years old), and Trump winning 20-30% of the black vote. None of this is logical, none of it is possible. We're talking about generational, historic shifts in voting patterns that fluctuate poll to poll and instead of admitting something is wrong the pollsters just gaslight us.
For these polls to be right, Trump would have to win the popular vote by millions. ONE republican president has won the popular vote since 1992. It's utter madness and nobody will admit something is fukked up with the methodology except for a handful of left leaning poll people. Could Biden lose in November? Of course! But I doubt it happens simply because he has more voters in his pocket in key states.
I'm sticking to my prediction: the United States is moving in the direction of European parliamentary democracies where the president (or prime minister) is often deeply unpopular yet keeps winning elections because voters vote based on party. The era of undecided voters is largely over. I would compare Biden to Macron in France for instance, during his last election. Unpopular, disliked, downright hated by some...and yet steamrolled a MAGA-esque candidate because the country hated her more, and found her to be weird. Same shyt happening here.