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August 25, 2012 05:00 pm GMT
I'm going to get a little political here, but bear with me, this is a tech post in the end.I'm in the midst of a trip from my new home in Berkeley, through my old stomping grounds in New York City, to my hometown in Canada. Politically, almost everyone in all three places falls in one of two camps: either they view the US Republican Party as evil incarnate, or (like me) they're fiscal conservatives who might once have been vaguely sympathetic to their avowed goals, but now see Republicans as the party of delusional magical-thinking cargo cultists.Whether we're right or not isn't the point. (Although we are.) The point is that almost no one in any of my filter bubbles can even imagine a person who is not evil, insane, and/or an idiot voting for Romney/Ryan. And yet--according to the polls--they're practically neck and neck with Obama/Biden. If the Republicans win November's election, the people I know will be disappointed...but we won't be in a state of shocked disbelief. Because of the polls.
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What Happens When Pollsters Are No Better Than Psychics?
I'm going to get a little political here, but bear with me, this is a tech post in the end.I'm in the midst of a trip from my new home in Berkeley, through my old stomping grounds in New York City, to my hometown in Canada. Politically, almost everyone in all three places falls in one of two camps: either they view the US Republican Party as evil incarnate, or (like me) they're fiscal conservatives who might once have been vaguely sympathetic to their avowed goals, but now see Republicans as the party of delusional magical-thinking cargo cultists.Whether we're right or not isn't the point. (Although we are.) The point is that almost no one in any of my filter bubbles can even imagine a person who is not evil, insane, and/or an idiot voting for Romney/Ryan. And yet--according to the polls--they're practically neck and neck with Obama/Biden. If the Republicans win November's election, the people I know will be disappointed...but we won't be in a state of shocked disbelief. Because of the polls.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/AuOpofetaIA/
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