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In response to "I would say that the value of these polls is to point to areas/states of interest/attack (IOW, Dems should absolutely be putting $ into TX and GA)" by Reagen

Again, without fully understanding how their accuracy is increasingly waning — 2016 you saw the same exact arguments about Texas that led to incorrect

Posted by JackDawson (aka dawson) May 19 '20, 07:17

Behavior like failure to defend supposedly comfortable turf

This wasn’t a mistake caused by a comey black swan event— the error made by the campaign incorrectly relying on polls was all campaign season long

That you’re arguing for the same exact approach that turned out to be colossally wrong based on polls without sort of caveating this lesson is precisely my point

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But if you look at the charts, the errors in the primary polls are wildly out of scope for the errors in the general - Reagen May 19, 07:24

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Again, without fully understanding how their accuracy is increasingly waning — 2016 you saw the same exact arguments about Texas that led to incorrect

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