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And all the polls said Hillary Clinton was going to win the Presidential election in a land slide. Like the main stream media, national polls have been totally discredited.

Pay enough money and you are able to find a pollster to support whatever agenda you want to promote. It's so easy to manipulate and manufacture the result you want it is ridiculous. Just phrase the questions right and contact the correct demographics.

The Political Experts Don’t Trust Polls
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/20...s-how-to-tell/



Celinda Lake, a pollster, political consultant and president of Lake Research Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based polling firm, says polling has seen “kind of a steady decline. It’s getting harder to reach people. It’s also harder to get them to cooperate.”

Michael Traugott is a University of Michigan political science professor who specializes in polling and opinion surveys and he has stated that polls cannot be trusted for a variety of reasons and that he is in agreement with Gallup when they say the industry is in need of a “major overhaul”.

"What many of these experts are referring to is the death of the legitimacy of public opinion polls due to insufficient sample size. When polls do not have enough participants, the results cannot be considered to be valid. The way that polls cover up this deficiency is to report an official sounding statistic that gives fake legitimacy to the results (e.g. the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3%). In actuality, the legitimate poll would state something like “the statistical confidence level with regard to the accuracy of this poll is 95% or higher”. The representation of this notion is usually expressed as a level of confidence and it looks like this: P=.05. If you don’t see this statistic, the poll, on its face, is unreliable."