Reply to post: Re: As Liberal Party of Old would have told you

From landslide to buried alive: Why 2017 election forecasts weren't wrong

fajensen

Re: As Liberal Party of Old would have told you

So if the political polling is way out, it makes them look bad.

It may make them look bad, but in no way does this stop the stupidity because (as you said) the point of polls is to have something to talk about AND someone to blame for ones failures! Repeated failures just put the pollsters in the same bin as Economists, who have for too long absolutely cornered the market for prediction fails and done very well for themselves too. Even penny-stock tipsters manage to live, thus the pollsters can relax: There is plenty of space at the bottom!

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