• buddhabound@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m GenX, and I wouldn’t answer a poll if you paid me. I will vote, and I will never vote for a Republican for the rest of my life. If there’s no Dem candidate on the ballot for a specific office, I leave it blank so they can see how many votes they’re not getting when they don’t run a candidate.

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        10 months ago

        It’s not, but evidently polling isn’t capturing these groups effectively. Again, as 2020 and 2022 proved.

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        10 months ago

        I don’t answer polls as a GenX, but I sure as hell vote in every election. I will never vote for a Republican. Polls won’t capture voters like me, and voters like me are not just millennials and zoomers.

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          10 months ago

          Polling isn’t as simple as adding up responses and reporting the percentages.

          They use complex methodologies to account for inaccuracies exactly like your good self.

          That’s not to say that polls are necessarily accurate - clearly they aren’t, but to say “polls won’t capture voters like me” is incorrect.