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2016 Postmortem

bulloney

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6. Why are we giving any credibility to these polls and surveys?

Reply to Merryland (Original post)

Sun May 22, 2016, 09:17 AM

May 2016

We're nearly 6 months away from the elections. A lot can happen between now and November. These Twitter and other polls posted are far from scientific. All these thing do is give the media an excuse to not do their jobs and actually investigate and inform us on the real issues and how the candidates stand on those issues.

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Trump leads Clinton 46 - 44 (trending on Twitter) [View all] Merryland May 2016 OP

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Why are we giving any credibility to these polls and surveys? bulloney May 2016 #6

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Um, I understand where the poll originated. I wonder why we give so much credibility bulloney May 2016 #12

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