Tuesday, June 20, 2017

The "shy" voter again

Just a word on the polls: going into the Georgia special election, nobody but nobody reported a Handel lead greater than 2% and (as of now) she's up by nearly 7%, cruising for victory in the most expensive House race ever.

Two weeks ago, the Atlantic Journal-Constitution had Ossoff up by 7%.  Oops.

Update - With 100% reporting, Decision Desk has it 52.7% to 47.3% for a 5.4% win.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

With more than 100% reporting, it's a 3.7% win.

Roger Bournival said...

The people that conduct these polls are the same people that have been giving us fake news for over three decades. They got Brexit completely wrong, they got Trump completely wrong and they got this GA-6 race completely wrong, among many others. They keep 'erring' for Democrats, Socialists and big government on a consistent basis in order to depress the rest of us from voting for Republicans who keep kicking sand in our faces (see Obamacare 'repeal').

What reason do you have to continue to believe these people anymore?

Anonymous said...

They keep 'erring' for Democrats, Socialists and big government on a consistent basis


Cheer up! Straight-down-the-middle Rasmussen says Donald Trump's approval rating is 50%.

Skeptical of that outlier result? (Everyone else is getting 35-40%.) Skept no more; just rely on the three times (so far) that Trump has tweeted about the same poll.