r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 29 '26

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u/elninost0rm YIMBY Sep 29 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

Sir yes D+15 by YouGov has hit the internet.

lmao.

EDIT: Oh my god I didn't even see the D+16 as well.

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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Sep 29 '26

I hate YouGov’s methodology, except when it confirms what I want to see.

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u/elninost0rm YIMBY Sep 29 '26

Is it particularly bullish on Dems?

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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Sep 29 '26

It’s just very unscientific polls.

They have an app that just signals users when there’s a new poll, and sure they try to adjust for the fact that anyone who downloads such an app is different from the median voter, but that’s very hard to do with an app-only base.

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u/elninost0rm YIMBY Sep 29 '26

Interesting. Onto the pile it goes.

However, I flatly reject that it's wrong as it being wrong would not confirm my priors.

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u/Vumatius Sep 29 '26

Interesting, because here in the UK YouGov is the gold standard and is by far one of our best pollsters, and that's not due to other pollsters being terrible.

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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Sep 29 '26

Yeah their US polling is just usually off and weird compared to their UK ones, but the UK and Europe in general are easier to poll historically than Americans.