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If 2020 turns out to be another Trump Victory, it might as well be the death of polling.In response to your point about pollsters, yes its probable that they're gonna fuck up polling even worse. There's a lot problems with polling that even some of the pollsters admit, such as the inability to actually poll white working-class voters that are not college-educated. In addition, they cannot poll voters that have registered to vote this election (and I have a feeling that a lot of them are gonna be voting for Trump). Their distribution is horrible and significantly undercounts/misses rural areas (which are gonna break heavily for Trump, and will be the areas with the highest turnout this election). And they are weighing the polls based off of 2012 and 2008 turnout, not 2016 turnout. 90% of the black voting population will NOT turn out for Biden as they did for Obama.
They also base the polls off of thinking that there will be a high youth voter turnout too, and that's not actually showing up in the early vote nor will they show up for election day. The Wu Flu actually fucked that up, because Democrats cannot host events on college campuses urging these students to vote, and a lot of these students probably aren't even in the county right now to be able to vote.
It's just funny how actual early vote demographics are showing that the polls are dead wrong. The electorate so far seems to be more male, more white-working class and more predisposed to the Republican Party. A lot of those conservative low propensity voters that haven't voted for the past several elections or so are actually turning up in full force to vote for Trump and straight Republican Party ticket.
That's not even accounting for the Democrats that will be crossing to vote for Trump too. There will be a significant Democrat crossover vote for Trump and the Republican Party.
And as for your second point, there have been several polls that show Trump is trusted more on the economy than Biden. In addition, the economy is already recovering for the past few months and counting. The Wu Flu is not gonna be the millstone on Trump, but rather on Biden.
The pollsters haven't learned a damn thing and it looks like 2020 will humiliate them even further, if not send them further into irrelevancy.
Also, the fact that a Gallup poll released recently showing that 56% of Americans say that they're better off than they were four years ago shows that Trump will win big. In that same poll taken in 1984, 44% said they were better off than they were four years ago and that was the year Reagan and the Republicans won in a massive landslide.
When you take a step back and look at the big picture, none of these translate to a Biden victory. It translates to a Trump victory.
Because nobody will take it seriously anymore, no matter whose side you might be on.
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