• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    We’re celebrating that the trend is positive.

    Look at it this way: when polls continued to decline under Biden the trajectory, the trend, portended a very bad outcome and signalled a change in strategy needed to occur.

    When Democrats see these headlines, it means the battlefield is shifting in our favor or the wind is in our sails even if the war isn’t yet won.

    That’s all. If a downward spiral of polls spells despair, an upward ascent of polls spells hype and enthusiasm, which tends to he contagious and self-sustaining like a nuclear reaction.

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      3 months ago

      Actually I didn’t see that here at all.

      When the polls were bad I mainly saw the blue no matter who crowd go on and on about how inaccurate the polls are

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        3 months ago

        Niche communities on a niche website like Lemmy are not representative of the wider democratic sample set to be fair. I was definitely one of those people sounding the alarm on here. For a considerable time many people felt Biden was our locked-in nominee and we had to support him no matter what because there was no alternative choice. And true, Vote Blue No Matter Who still applies whether polls go well or not.

        But luckily, the wider Democratic party put enough pressure to have Biden stand down.

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        3 months ago

        The polls are inaccurate at times, that they don’t necessarily show the exact amount of support a candidate has. A change in trends across multiple polls over time, however, can show changing attitudes, even if the specific percentage of support estimated is not necessarily accurate in each poll.