• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This is a big deal. I’m extremely excited to get a look into these data. This would be an INCREDIBLE thing considering that Biden has been lagging Trump in the polls for over 450 days.

    And whoever tells you polls don’t matter has their head up their ass. Polls do matter, a lot, especially this far out. People aren’t a monolith. People do change their minds and perspectives.

    Apparent viability matters. Even a 2-5% hit in polling to Trump can take him from the range of viable to non-viable.

    And yes, polling is flawed. In 2016 and 2020, the polling massively underestimated support for Trump. We need to keep this in mind when we look at these numbers,.

    Keeping in mind that the trajectory of Bidens polling was into the carpet, pretty much since the inauguration.

    If Biden can shift this towards an upward trend, he’s suddenly back in the game. Thats a sea change. Thats huge.

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      6 months ago

      Polls matter, until the next poll comes out. The only poll with any lasting effect is in November.

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      6 months ago

      Polls matter a lot when they start moving. There are plenty of people who pay no attention at all to news or politics. and those people are slowly finding out that Trump is now a convicted felon and may soon be wearing an orange jumpsuit.

      No matter how the “Law and Order” GQP attacks the American Criminal Justice System, western societies have centuries of experience dealing with convicted felons. It is a stain that won’t wash out.

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        Agreed. I’m holding back to do any real analysis of this for about 10 more days.

        People love to say polls suck, they don’t mean anything, its total none-sense, etc. Interestingly its always when their candidate is losing.

        Now that these polls are shifting, my guess is the dorks who can’t tell up from down start shifting their stories, and soon after that, they’ll be pretending it was always their view.

        Polls are important, especially in terms of this far out, and especially in-terms of the ‘appearance’ of electability. These are the weeks and months where momentum builds. A sudden breakout, or sudden drop in polling numbers is extremely consequential.