If the polling is this wacky, why bother publishing it at all?

Over the weekend, ABC and the Washington Post published the results of a poll that made both operations look like its results were the product of a month-long exercise with a Magic 8-Ball. The way you know it was an embarrassment is the Post story about the poll began by telling us all we should probably ignore it completely.

The Post-ABC poll shows Biden trailing Trump by 10 percentage points at this early stage in the election cycle, although the sizable margin of Trump’s lead in this survey is significantly at odds with other public polls that show the general election contest a virtual dead heat. The difference between this poll and others, as well as the unusual makeup of Trump’s and Biden’s coalitions in this survey, suggest it is probably an outlier.

  • RockyC@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Shrooms have nothing to do with mass delusions. In fact, they may help cure them.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, a really stupid headline by someone who doesn’t understand mushrooms.

      Probably ate a few grams at a party one time and had a panic attack.

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        1 year ago

        The more relevant drug is probably “huffing sister’s farts while engaging in incest in back woods like perfect GOP voter”

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          I was thinking datura, since it apparently makes people very suggestive to things as well as having a horrible trip in many cases. To the US, the Trump presidency was probably the political equivalent of “a 72-hour psychedelic nightmare from which you may never recover.”

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      1 year ago

      “You’d have to be out of your goddamned mind” got poo-poohed by the editorbot.