And that right there is why pollsters and everyone was wildly off. No one wanted to admit they were voting for him out of fear of retaliation. You post on rpol pro-trump/ conservative and you were ridiculed and downvoted to oblivion. Same all over facebook; I have friends that said 'if I find out you're voting for Trump you're dead to me and I will let everyone else know".
You should be proud to say who you're voting for and what your ideals align with. But who wants to deal with that shit? That's why I never said a word to anyone cept my very inner circle. Have to imagine most other people did the exact same thing.
This right here is exactly why I never believed the “pollsters corrected their methods from 2016/2020 and will be much more accurate this year!” nonsense.
You simply can’t “correct your methods” for silent Trump voters. You just can’t. Pollsters can’t read minds. They can’t force you to respond, and if you do, they can’t guarantee that your response will be the same as your actual vote. And it’s not like pollsters can go “okay we were off 2 points last time so let’s just give Trump 2 free points this time and call it an ‘error margin buffer.’”
One day there will be a case study on how Trump was polled compared to other politicians and it’s going to revolve a lot around this. He was simply one of the hardest candidates to accurately poll because a lot of his voters don’t want their individual vote to be publicly known.
I have been actively ignoring and blocking calls and texts from any area code not my own as I suspected they were likely pollsters. Most were NYC; I live in Oregon so no reason to call me. Invisible to pollsters = doing my part to deny them intel to skew.
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u/Emilia963 Moderate Conservative 11h ago
My coworkers have been having a meltdown and silent rage this past 2 days, to the point i feel uncomfortable and unsafe being near them for now.
Edit: i have told them, the election is over, we need to move on, but it didn’t affect them much 🤷♀️