From: Josh Rosenbluth <noway@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: Trump Sues Newspaper Over Election Interference
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:10:37 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 12/19/2024 4:51 PM, pothead wrote:
> On 2024-12-19, Josh Rosenbluth <noway@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> On 12/19/2024 10:56 AM, pothead wrote:
>>>
>>> This election should seal polling's fate as an accurate metric for predicting campaigns/elections.
>>
>> How accurate do you think polls have been in the past?
>>
> Pretty much the same level of inaccuracy however we did not have the Internet and social
> media spewing the results within seconds to the entire world.
> That's the difference.
You are correct not much has changed. But the polls are useful in
estimating the odds of a candidate winning thanks to poll aggregators
like Nate Silver who came into prominence on the Internet.