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In reply to the discussion: OH BOY: Hillary Clinton Blasts Edward Snowden for Fleeing to Russia and China [View all]Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)That's fine. The problem is that pretty much every political poll uses self-identification as a means to identify political groups.
It was done during the 2012 election when Republicans rejected polls because they felt they were skewed against them. Nate Silver noted how that notion was just silly. The reason Republicans thought the polls were skewed is that there were more Dems in the sample because more people self-identified as Dem.
Republicans eventually ended up creating their own polling methodology which turned out to be an unmitigated disaster. The few polls that weighted, like Rasmussen, were wildly inaccurate.
If you disagree with polling methodology, that's fine. You could even start to create your own polls because you don't seem to like the actual results of the polls that exist.
Good luck to you.
I'll stick with science.