Tale of two polls.

Molly Cranberries-Kraig 🦃

I am an Iowa native. IMO, the Register poll accurately reflects the political sentiment. Iowans are a mercurial sort, but there are enough Eisenhower Republicans who live there who will be goddamned if they let Trump occupy the White House again.

Ehay2k for Harris Walz

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@tomiahonen What's the deal with the Emerson poll?

Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote

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only problem:

1. #harris ahead

"cool, i don't need to vote"

2. tied

"this is depressing, i'm not voting"

3. #trump ahead

"what's the point, i'm not going to vote"

just #vote people, fuck the polls, whatever they say

#election2024

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Thank you.

Ed Seedhouse

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"It defies reason that these two polls can both be of the same state"

Just shows how little you understand about polling.

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@benroyce @KamalaHarrisWin

Hear you, but nobody is sitting this one out. Don't think one poll is going to make people complacent. We are all scared to death and turnout will be through the roof. Full speed ahead! Everyone votes! Defeat is not an option, and no amount of victory margin is enough!

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Pretty strong 'reply guy' energy there Ed, but thanks for your perspective.

Tomi T Ahonen For Harris

@Ehay2k @mastodonmigration @KamalaHarrisWin Real Clear sponsored that poll. Real Clear are in the tank for Trump, do not ever refer to anything Real Clear does. Total frauds

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@tomiahonen @Ehay2k @KamalaHarrisWin

That's the point. Not referring to them as a credible source, but as an example of how the polls are being manipulated by the GOP this election.

And if they are finagling the polls that much in Iowa, just image what they are doing all over the country.

Do not trust most of the polls people. There are a few legit pollsters, who Tomi has monitored and averaged, the rest are garbage.

Morten Kjeldgaard

@mckra1g @mastodonmigration @KamalaHarrisWin @benroyce The tide rises everywhere. If it’s rising in Iowa, it’s rising all over. Other states might be in play that we didn’t expect, and the polls are lagging several days if not a week.

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@mok0 @mckra1g @KamalaHarrisWin @benroyce

And most of the polls are GOP manipulated 'red wave' polls, so you are right, we have no idea how widespread this may be.

jz.tusk

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Makes this the perfect time to push harder - when your opponent is stumbling backwards it's a perfect time to knock them off their feet.

If people are disgusted with Trump, let's convince them to be disgusted with the party that supports him.

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@jztusk @mok0 @mckra1g @KamalaHarrisWin @benroyce

There is only one way to rid America of this MAGA scourge, and that is to crush it. To win by such a convincing margin that the Republicans can no longer exist in their current form. So, defeat is not an option and no amount of victory margin is enough.

SearingTruth

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"I and thousands of other scientists and engineers developed the internet in belief that one day we could all actually see and hear each other, leading to the universal realization that we are all the same.

And amazingly the internet eventually did work, and we all could see and hear each other at once.

But we still were just as easily led to misunderstanding.

Much of my life was crushed as I pondered what we could have done differently, but eventually I realized that humanity must face and save itself.

One human being at a time."
SearingTruth

jz.tusk

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Yes.
It's silly to get too enamored of a phrase you've invented yourself, but I keep thinking "A serious punch aims past the point of contact".

I don't want us to just aim to win - I want us to aim at destroying the fascists' hold on power, and any future hopes they may have.

Grassroots Joe

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I had thought Emerson was more or less OK, but what the hell is RealClearDefense? Never heard of them and if they're affiliated with Real Clear Politics, their definitely worse than useless.

As for Ann Seltzer and the Register, 100% gold standard in Iowa and anyone who knows anything about Iowa polling knows that's true.

DrD

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Did they excl Des Moines from the sample; another RW junk poll no one's heard of.
Selzer poll is the gold standard in Iowa and in line with early voting showing consistent Democratic Party lead + significant gender gap.

SaareMartha

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Let's not forget. This is a marathon - not a sprint. Now's the time we have to run the hardest: Vote, help your neighbors, friends and family to VOTE!