If we ever have a real election again, please shut the fuck up about the polls being rigged

[RidinWithHarris]

Other than the obvious fake polls, the major pollsters were actually trying to get good numbers. Some might have fallen into "herding" behavior, but they weren't trying to do anything nefarious even if that happened, and if there was any error caused by herding, it was small.

They weren't selling number that clients asked them to provide.

The news services weren't requesting tight numbers to boost ratings.

The people on the news telling us it was a tight race weren't just saying that to boost ratings.

This race was, and still is, just as fucking close as we were being told. The polls, for all their flaws, pretty much painted the picture we're seeing right now.

[Tribetime]

1. Ok sadly I think this was it

[Elessar Zappa]

2. I never thought they were deliberately rigged however

there were several cases in the past couple of years where polls severely underestimated support for pro-choice ballot measures. So I think it was fair for people to wonder whether polls were capturing the true opinion of the nation.

[MontanaFarmer]

3. And I'm done buying the happy

red wave talk from our side. Our people didn't know what they thought they knew. Bonior, Rosenberg, et al just blew it.

[Silent Type]

4. Yeah, "the polls are not predictive" junk was wrong. We only trust science when it suits us.

[Quiet Em]

5. I have a huge distrust in crap run by the patriarchy right now.

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[RidinWithHarris]

7. At least distrust the right stuff

The polls were not the right stuff to distrust.

[Quiet Em]

8. Nope.

I know where my distrust lies.

It's obvious at this point.

[uponit7771]

6. This isn't helping, we know it was close

[RidinWithHarris]

10. No, a lot of us didn't seem to know that

A lot of DUers were absolutely certain the polls were way off and hiding some BIG advantage for Harris.

Hell, I myself thought Harris was doing better than the polls. Not definitely sure of that, but I thought it possible.

Even then, however, I thought if the polls were off it would be honest errors in how pollsters modeled the electorate, not the conspiratorial crap so many people here were spewing.

Anytime anyone posts a poll, you can count on a dependable chorus of "Ignore the polls!", "Bullshit!", "They just want ratings!", "They're trying to demoralize us and suppress turnout!".

[uponit7771]

13. This is false, people knew it was close and acted accordingly with GOTV

[applegrove]

9. Every time i posted a bad poll for Harris-Walz I got piled on.

It made me shy away. Who were the people who piled on I wonder. Maybe DU should do an after action investigation.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

12. Yep - I got some hate when I posted polls.

I felt that it’s better to know the truth then to be living in a fantasy world.

[iemanja]

11. And knock of the landslide/ blowout BS