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lees1975

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3. Over time, I've heard from many experts in the field that polls are easily manipulated to say
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 12:18 PM
Jul 2024

whatever media is using them as a source wants to say.

Donald Trump has been doing nothing but setting up his candidacy for the past four years. He's bought and paid for everything he needs, including the chairmanship of the party. Nate Silver pointed to the fact that there have been a flood of polls inserted into composites in recent years for the purpose of altering the results and the odds, and it has made them increasingly inacurrate, with wider margins of error and less reliablility.

We were talking about Russian bots and interference before 2016 and then that was proven true. We've taken steps in this country to protect our election electronics from being hacked. Have polls done the same?





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