I think this little debacle — initially seen in 2016 with Trump’s first electoral victory — can be summed up thus:
So much for them, then: they were as clueless as all their US counterparts, all of whom called the election as “close” when (barring vote fraud) it was never going to be anything like that.
I know, I know: everyone tries to hedge their bets in the prediction game, but never so egregiously. It was obvious to any disinterested observer that they were cooking the stats by slanted sampling and so on.
One would think that the pollsters would have learned their lesson from 2016, but noooo.
What I want to know is: why should we believe anything these assholes tell us from now on?
Anyone? Bueller?
The polling outfits, like the media, are owned by the Democrats. They will always try to spin the Dems as being in the lead in any contest, to discourage the good guys.
This means that they end up with egg on their faces every time, but their owners make them wear the egg, over and over again, as a price for gaining political advantage.
What these goblins and their servants haven’t realised is that the mainstream media (eg WaPo AND NYT) are now irrelevant, as are the pollsters. They shit in their own nests so often that nobody pays any attention to them any more. Rogan, and bloggers like Eugyppius and El Gato Malo are the people who form opinions now.
Guys like Jeff Bezos aren’t stupid. His editorial at the WaPo about nobody trusting them any more showed that he understands how things now stand. Whether he can return them to any sort of relevance is an interesting question.
Polls are not there to report the political leanings of the people at large. Polls are there to create news and drive the agenda of who is paying for the poll.
Because criminals and liars persist until someone gives them the emergency room level beating they require. Apparently their nature is in their genes.