Did you, or anyone you know, vote based on polling in 2016?

[BigmanPigman]

Polls were all over the place before the election and in the chaos Dem voters were convinced Hillary would win, despite all the neg press regarding tRump and the "pussy" tapes and Hillary's e-mails. Many people, including Obama (he admitted this himself) made choices and decisions based of this factor. I know of an older woman, teacher and lifelong Dem who wrote in "Bernie" (not even listening to Susan Sarandon) assuming Hillary was a shoe-in.

Are we going to allow the media to shape the midterms with their non stop polling again? How do we stop history from repeating itself? "Pee pee tape Putin" will be coming to the US right during the midterms and there will be more chaos with Manafort and the ongoing Mueller investigation. Are we prepared?

[RandySF]

1. Yes

Hillary's polling led a lot of San Franciscans to vote for Stein.

[pnwmom]

3. I think the same thing happened in Seattle, where Stein got more votes than Trump. n/t

[pnwmom]

2. Yes, some people stayed home based on polling. They were sure Hillary would win.

In fact, I just saw someone say that on FB today. She hadn't even registered because she didn't want to pull jury duty, and she didn't think her vote would matter.

She does now, and she just got registered.

[progree]

4. "She hadn't even registered because she didn't want to pull jury duty, "

Oh, JFC that canard again.

Maybe it's that way in some states, but in Minnesota, for example, you get in the jury pool by name/address on your drivers license, tax return (income and property), registering to vote, and I forget what else -- they tap many databases. Only one of the above is enough to do it.