You'd Have to Be On Mushrooms to Believe Trump Is Beating Biden By 20 Points Among Young Voters

If the polling is this wacky, why bother publishing it at all?

Over the weekend, ABC and the Washington Post published the results of a poll that made both operations look like its results were the product of a month-long exercise with a Magic 8-Ball. The way you know it was an embarrassment is the Post story about the poll began by telling us all we should probably ignore it completely.

The Post-ABC poll shows Biden trailing Trump by 10 percentage points at this early stage in the election cycle, although the sizable margin of Trump’s lead in this survey is significantly at odds with other public polls that show the general election contest a virtual dead heat. The difference between this poll and others, as well as the unusual makeup of Trump’s and Biden’s coalitions in this survey, suggest it is probably an outlier.

HawlSera,

Msuhrooms sound real good, guess that’s a plan for the weekend.

Powerpoint,

They publish it to try and suppress voters to make them feel like there’s no chance. Then when they lose they can claim election fraud because the bogus polling had them winning. It’s a common tactic Conservatives use now to suppress votes. People need to show up no matter what the polling or news is saying.

Furbag,

Trump might not be 20 points ahead of Biden, but you’d better fucking turn out at the poll like he is.

hr_,

Here’s a writeup by FiveThirtyEight that happens to now be a part of ABC but didn’t participate in this pill: How outlier polls happen — and what to do with them

CouncilOfFriends,

These polls also don’t sample people who use call screening (Google Voice for me) to ask unknown callers to say their name, because this breaks most robodialers.

There are dozens of us!!

TheSaneWriter,
@TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com avatar

That's a good write-up. I generally agree with 538's philosophy on outliers, include them in the data but weigh them less heavily.

snausagesinablanket,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t knock mushrooms. They actually help you clear your mind and make good decisions.

MiikCheque,

why mushrooms and not opioids? or crack?

Mushrooms don’t deserve this. They’ve proven beneficial and healthy in defeating depression, properly coping with trauma, cognitive decline, etc. This negatively associates mushrooms with idiocy and it’s irresponsible and unwarranted.

sturmblast,

Can confirm, I eat mushrooms, and I still can’t believe this shit.

heird,

Maybe it should say, you should take mushrooms if you think […]

float,

You’re god damn right!

chiliedogg,

The only way to get those numbers is through hallucinations.

snausagesinablanket,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

Nailed it.

quadropiss,

Love the casual stigma around drugs that aren’t alcohol or tobacco

LUHG_HANI,
@LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world avatar

Get shitfaced and cause a punch-up, everyone understands. Take a few mushrooms and watch a nature documentary, everyone loses their minds.

Pratai,

Now let’s watch how quickly that piece of shit coward uses these polls to validate his tyrannical campaign to rule America. And remember: these are the “fake news networks.”

Honesty don’t understand how his dipshit supported can’t see how it’s always fake new when it’s negative, but when the most “untrustworthy” and hated news sources suddenly post things that are positive towards him- they magically become accurate.

You’ve got to be braindead to make any logical sense from that.

InternetUser2012,

You’d have to be a fox “news” watcher.

qwertyWarlord,

Polling has fallen into the same problem as everything else, they just skew the methods to make the numbers fit a narrative, be that the person paying them or some misguided ideas. Polling has been shit for years now, just ignore it

zabadoh,

Depends on what exactly each poll is asking or saying.

If you go by popular vote, Biden could be well ahead in that demographic.

But 1) Not all young people vote, andas a whole they lag far behind compared to other age groups, particularly ages 45+

kff.org/…/number-of-individuals-who-voted-in-thou…

And 2) The popular vote is greatly negated by the electoral college.

So If you want to become President, one way is to appeal to what old people in Red states can be persuaded to believe.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

that show the general election contest a virtual dead heat.

Jfc the US is such a dumpster fire.

sturmblast,

you are not wrong

LongPigFlavor,

Mid 20s gen z here. I’ll be sure to vote for Biden. All in all he’s pretty alright in my book. Sure things could be better, but that’s going to take a bit more time, hopefully his successors will be better.

arin,

Can we have politicians that are at least 20 years younger than moscow mitch?

doctorcrimson,

Only if like 15 million more young voters show up to primaries. Fat chance, mate.

tym,

Pffft… I’ve been microdosing for years and I would never believe that shit!

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