• hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Agreed.

    Ultimately, polls are simply unable to account for the demographic of “doesn’t participate in advance polling”, and Anthony they attempt to do to account for that glaring weakness is guesswork.

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Probably also looking at previous elections to compensate.

      But the simple fact is that the repubs lost way more of their voterbase to covid than the Dems did. So if you use proportional models, there is a good chance they are off by double the excess deaths in the republican party… And that is a lot.