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BaronChocula

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Thu Apr 4, 2024, 05:53 PM Apr 4

What pollster Cornell Belcher just said on Nicole's show

"I'm a pollster and we should stop talking about polls on televisions so much... we're centering too much of our conversation on polls and polls aren't crystal balls. They're not predictors of the future. I think we want polls to predict the future, but they're not. From a campaign standpoint what we use polls for is to instruct us on how to build a campaign."

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What pollster Cornell Belcher just said on Nicole's show (Original Post) BaronChocula Apr 4 OP
I think she's right. Remember how far off these polls were, in predicting a tidal wave of republican seats last Nov. SWBTATTReg Apr 4 #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. I think she's right. Remember how far off these polls were, in predicting a tidal wave of republican seats last Nov.
Thu Apr 4, 2024, 06:15 PM
Apr 4

2023? Nothing of the sort happened. Democrats held on and are even close to capturing the majority in the House again, because Republicans are fleeing the party, leaving their seats in large numbers, enough to possibly shift control of the House perhaps.

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