Political polls, beloved of TV news commentators, were not very useful this time. Most of them showed a 1 or 2 percent difference between candidates. That is a dead heat in my book; either candidate is equally likely to win. Not much prediction to be had here. And, despite a lot of talk about a red wave, the election was pretty even Steven. Which is a pity, Biden gets another two years to drive the country deeper into the ground.
Two things that make telephone polls hard to do and all the polls are telephone polls. Nowadays people won’t talk to pollsters. Ten or fifteen years ago we count do telephone polling before elections. People were sort of flattered that the party cared enough to call them. They were cordial, they would chat. Not anymore. Last time I did telephone calling, they just hung up. Tired of robocallers I guess.
And then we have smart phones. My three children don’t have landline phones, they all use smart phones. They don’t have a phone book for smart phones, so you have trouble dialing voters and not winding up talking to a business receptionist.
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