• cowfodder@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    We polled 50 toothless hillbillies in the most rural part of West Virginia and this is what we found…

    I’m in my early 40s and I can tell you that most of the people I know my age or younger will never vote Republican, and also will never answer polls like this.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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      9 months ago

      I used to trust, for the most part, the science behind the polls and the sampling and statistics and all that. That was back when everyone had a land-line and the samples were somewhat close to representative of the population as a whole. These days I can’t imagine how I’d get a valid representative sample. I’m pretty ignorant on the subject, so maybe there is in fact a way to get a valid sample. At this point in my living and learning, I don’t think there is.

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      9 months ago

      I get polled pretty regularly, and while I don’t approve of Biden, I’m still voting for him. Because the alternative is too terrible to contemplate.

      It’s funny how they always ask if you approve, but not “will you support them anyway?”