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Polls are useless, else Lindsey Graham would not be a Senator right now as he was “losing by double digits” last election cycle
Edit: it was supposed to be a squeaker and Lindsey wound up winning easily by +10 points, sorry but my point remains that the polling was way off.
Polls are useful in seeing trends and getting an idea of outcomes. You take multiple polls and average through the results and look for trends.
Would you happen to have a link for that claim? I have seen some bad polling before, but I am curious. I can only find hopium articles and articles stating that it would be a tight race for graham, nothing about him “losing by double digits”. Whoever predicted that off him being close in the poll seems like they would be foolish.
He won by 10 points which isn’t a complete blowout but is a firm victory.
I have conflated information incorrectly—my apologies— they were polling neck and neck and then Lindsey wound up winning by double digits. My bad, but the polling was still very wrong.
The Photo Finish That Wasn’t: How the Polls Got the Graham/Harrison Race So Wrong
—Lindsey Graham won the most watched (and expensive) U.S. Senate race of the year. By a lot. He wasn’t supposed to. Not by a lot, anyway. Not if you paid attention to public opinion polls leading up to the election. Most polls gave him the odds, but not big odds. —continued with link below👇
