• @[email protected]
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    314 days ago

    Likely voters are those that have voted before, that’s what makes them likely to vote again. For the most part they’re the more accurate people to be polling.

    • @[email protected]M
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      314 days ago

      And discounts first time voters.

      Some even only count people who voted in the last 2 elections.

      • @[email protected]
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        614 days ago

        Because new voters are a rounding error smaller than the error bars of the sample size.

        Polling is pretty much like the unemployment rate. Any individual reading is meaningless, it’s a multitude of readings over time that give any useful information.