• itsgroundhogdayagain
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    7 days ago

    Really? Because the polls are pretty tight still. 47% to 44% per the BBC is not exactly spiraling out of control.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      Real polls take time. True opinion polls take at a minimum 2 weeks to conduct sufficient sampling and do analysis on and prep for release. You won’t see the full effect of the debate results in polls until, at the earliest, end of next week.

      And at the end of the day the only poll that matters is the one on November 5th…

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      Maybe it’s the fact that most people treat it like a local team rivalry or a “I hate my team but I won’t let the others win”.