2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary fans lack the excitement of Bernie fans, that explains the online polls!
End of story, carry on!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)RandySF
(59,279 posts)End of story.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)For instance, a large group are caught up in a rather amazing cult of personality and eagerly scan the web for anything and everything related to their one leader. For them everything's about him.
A smaller group supporting the same leader are focused on his policies more than him.
Another group is focused on stopping the right wing from destroying our country and tends to look beyond the primary to the scary, grim battles in 2016. I'm one of those, and the day-to-day horse race stuff some enjoy so much I see as irrelevant at best, typically indicative of absolutely nothing at this point, and usually just too silly to pay attention to.
Quick: How meaningful was some minor poll reported here last Thursday? Don't bother to look one up -- it should be memorable just a week later if it mattered... Can't remember? That's why we don't pay attention in the first place.
think
(11,641 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)I guess they didn't find her very exciting either, and started feeling the Bern.
Every single poll, every single focus group, Google hits, tweets...every single metric had Sanders the clear winner. That's a lot of voters excited about Bernie.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)most of whom favored Clinton before the debate. Bernie wowed them.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Who comically declared HRH the winner, without even acknowledging their own polls that showed Sanders the winner 85-12.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Very telling.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)I'm sure the spin from Hillary supporters will be even more comical and desperate. LOL!
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)TTFN
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)you are spending too much time in the BS group
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Shocking.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)All they could talk about after was Bernie.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Seems legit.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)and that they use the internet much more for such things than Hillary's supporters do and so they dominate online polls.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)by getting on every internet poll I could find. Lot of good that did-it's a meaningless waste of time but then so was the time I spent on Facebook until I quit.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)wyldwolf
(43,870 posts)Nah, of course not.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)This meme that only young people do the internet is so 1996, much like many of Hillary's ideas.
wyldwolf
(43,870 posts)emulatorloo
(44,187 posts)Those phrases originated because both DU'ers and Freepers understand online polls are bullshit and can be easily manipulated.
Yes I believe Bernie will win Iowa and New Hampshire. Online polls however are similar to DU polls, not worth the pixels they are printed on.
RandySF
(59,279 posts)John Kerry won every single online poll.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Who does that? Really? Not sure why there are so many posts on these online polls. We have over a year before this election is over. There will be many more polls, both regular and online. We need more time and more data before we can really figure out where most people are at. There are people that are not-so-excited about politics, but they still have opinions and show up to vote. I know lots of people like this (most everyone I know is like this, actually). They would never participate in an online forum or poll about politics, but they still show up and vote when the time comes.