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Voting is your only observable way of showing politicians what your beliefs are. If you're not happy with the DNC and if you're not happy with the GOP, voting for a third party produces a permanent public record that someone, somewhere was fed up with both of them. It probably won't change the ultimate result of the election, but if enough people vote third party, that shows up in records that your representatives look at. These numbers can change how your representative conceives his district's politics, and they use that to determine how to vote on various issues. You know how occasionally you see politicians in the news who vote against their party on particular things? Justin Amash is a big one here right now. They wouldn't do that if it didn't make sense to do in their district. The reason politicians do things like this is because they look at the voting numbers in their district and think this behavior will play well with the people voting for them. |
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I just had to post this. Seems some polls lately are being less than honest:
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/b76653_dca30f22bfd9461baf54b49ef32555ff.pdf This poll taken in North Carolina seems to favor Trump, both on the election and the issues. But then it shows some bizarre data that seem to suggest an intentional skew. It first claims that only 12% of respondents have school-age children. Then 80% claim to be Caucasian (North Carolina's actually demographics are much different) and then, a whopping 91% claim to be over 55. While I admit that senior citizens, who in recent years have skewed conservative, vote more reliably than younger people, THIS is ridiculous. Clearly, this poll was rather selective in its respondents. I have to wonder, how many other Conservative-leaning pundits (like this one) are doing this? |
That is pretty much all polls in general, as they do not get the whole picture. We really only ever find out how a presidential election goes when the votes actually get cast, and even then, there are people that decide not to vote. That's a freedom that this country offers...there are some countries where you MUST vote. So I pay very little attention to polls since they have their own slants. From a statistics-viewpoint, polls are always biased, even if not explicitly said. Instead, I pay attention to what politicians do for me to form my opinion.
Staying on topic, I have let off on caring much about politics since really nothing much has changed. Lots of people still cannot put the Mueller report behind them (the claim of obstruction is still debatable, but the primary objective of trying to prove Trump colluded was proven to be completely false). I think insisting on continuing to dwell over this is going to help Trump in the long term, but the economy is still the biggest reason for why he would get reelected. I think it doesn't help that the Democrat challengers cannot seem to agree on important issues regarding their own platform (the recent attacks on Joe Biden come to mind). It's really hard to say who would be the primary challenger to Trump, but I am beginning to wonder if there is again some favoritism in the party that brought down Bernie Sanders in favor of Hilary Clinton last election. No basis on that thought, just wondering based on the current state of actions for the Democratic party to choose someone to challenge Trump. |
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