Mad Poll Disease is making Democrats misread voter opinion

[BidenPresident]

It’s a perpetual state of anxiety – spread by the media’s obsession with using polls to forecast the outcome of the next election, instead of empowering voters with all the information they need to decide what they want that outcome to be and act, or vote, accordingly.

If you had clicked on FiveThirtyEight in June 2022, you would have thought Republicans had a 60% chance of controlling the Senate, in September that Democrats had a 70% chance of holding the Senate, and on election day, that Republican had a 60% chance of flipping it again. But in the real world, Democrats increased their Senate majority.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/01/polls-joe-biden-election-2024-democrats

 

[Walt]

As long as Republicans are absolutely sure that trump will win, I am not worried. They will not try hard to get votes, but instead try hard to find extreme policies to support that will turn off many voters.

I will get worried if I start seeing Republicans worried.