Can Polls Survive Losing Half the Country? (Bloomberg, behind paywall)

[pstokely]

Don't hear much about this in the corporate media
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/can-polls-survive-losing-half-the-country/2022/11/02/7eb6030e-5aa2-11ed-bc40-b5a130f95ee7_story.html

The political science department of Vanderbilt University has said that pre-election polls in 2020 exhibited the “largest errors in 40 years.” That mistake hovers over the 2022 election and influences the work, and reputations, of the partisans and pollsters (and partisan pollsters) who are trying to gauge the trajectory of a large, diverse and unruly electorate.

[Journeyman]

1. I refuse on principal to participate in polls of any nature . . .

They don't provide insight to a group dynamic; they're used most often to promote a pre-determined narrative.

[PortTack]

2. Largest error by pollsters in 40 years..wow! I hope everyone sees this and takes a deep breath