• BZ 🇨🇦@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    100%. The Conservative party is currently leading polls here in Canada because of the unpopularity of Justin Trudeau.

    The Conservative party are also conspiracy-loving, reality-denying loonies like the Republicans, but since “we’re Canada”, and “it can’t happen here”, they’ll probably form the government next year.

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      4 months ago

      The one upside of trump beating a deeply unpopular Biden would be it might give JT the impetus to acknowledge reality and move on.

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        4 months ago

        Stop. I see your thinly veiled disinformation intention. Biden is not unpopular “deeply” enough for Trump to beat him.

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            I don’t believe in polls because they all said Hilary was going to win. They also said that Trump was going to win again. Those polls mean nothing. For all I care, they’re being manipulated by Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.

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              For all I care, they’re being manipulated by Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.

              This is the silliest MAGA style conspiracy nonsense…

              You not understanding polling doesn’t mean they are disinformation, that’s a ridiculous thing to say. Or, maybe just like now, you dismissed information that you disliked and as such had another misinformed understanding of things.

              Polling aggregators like 538 said that trump had a 1/3 chance of winning and the thing about 1/3 chances is that they happen about 1/3 times!

              And then trump damn near won 2020 and lost by under 12,000 votes in one state. You can’t get much closer than that!

              What a goof.

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              This is like when conservatives deny climate change because it is unpleasant.

              Why do you think the polls were pretty much dead on for the 2022 midterms? Just blind luck?

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                Except they weren’t. Every poll presented all across social media was OMG RED WAVE!! Polls are shit. The only one that matters EVER is the one on election day.

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                  This sounds like a you problem.

                  If you got your news from non social media and looked at polls, not punditry, you’d have known the most likely outcome was pretty much what happened, the Republicans won a narrow majority.

                  Don’t blame polling for your ignorance.

                  Edit: If you want an interesting (okay, interesting to nerds like me) recounting of the polling in 2022:

                  https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/2022-election-polling-accuracy/

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                    You should try stomping around the room and yelling at the screen.

                    Polls are shit. Only one poll counts. Even the article you posted has a self-inserted bias.

                    There is a 50% chance of rain today