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.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because young people aren’t fucking idiots?

      They know Biden tried to have more forgiven and deferred, but the supreme court stopped him. The same supreme court which overturned roe. Abortion in itself is enough really.

      Oh, and young people fucking loathe Republicans, so there’s that too!

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          1 year ago

          I suggest you do a considerable bit of research. There is no big national election this year. And the legislation which mandated the restart date chose the exact same restart date that the department of education had already set. There was absolutely no change there.

          The Supreme Court wasn’t about a law, but an action that Biden tried to take, and the Court said he couldn’t do (which legally really makes no sense if you read the relevant constitutional passages).

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      1 year ago

      Didn’t they stop payments on student loans and try to forgive them completely?