We pay way too much attention to the polls.
How Texas pollsters get their job done when everyone is screening their calls
“Pollsters are not predictors, they're not looking into a crystal ball.” Pollsters are “just giving us a sense of what the snapshot of the electorate looks like at that moment based upon the factors that they have determined are relevant to their poll.”
https://www.kut.org/politics/2024-10-14/texas-president-poll-kamala-harris-donald-trump
@pabloniusmonk "Bored extroverts who answer strangers' calls are split X to Y over..."
We need new infrastructure both private and public because things just don't work the same anymore.