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Old 09-26-2016, 10:19 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by onwebcam View Post
No it's reflective of what people will do at the actual polls (behind the curtain) rather than being a hand selected group with as you pointed out a democratic leaning bias.
Sorry, but you are just wrong here.

Having a generic poll that anyone can vote on posted on a website is worthless. Here is why. I didn't watch the debate, but I am free to go to one of these sites and vote on who won the debate. Everyone knows Trump's diehard fanbase have a strong presence online so they can flood one of these polls and vote it up even if they didn't actually watch the debate.

With the poll I mentioned, they admitted the bias so when they showed it was 67% Hillary won an 33% say Trump won you can read that is actually more like 63% say Hillary won after you remove the democratic skew. That is a hell of a lot more scientific than just putting a generic poll on a website anyone can vote on.
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