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I'm just glad that after 2morrow this endless campaigning will finally END! IAM SO SICK OF POLITICS!! This isn't healthy! We need to get back to normal where elections end governing BEGINS!!✌️🌊🤍❤️

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Looks like we both read the dizzying Washington Post 11-minute article on "how can polls be accurate when nobody answers their phone". I've been commenting on the lack of credibility among ANY poll in the modern era, and the article had stats to back it up. It used to take 1 in 3 calls on a landline to get someone to answer -- now it's more than 134 calls. But then the article's math got dicey, because they still can't screen quality of responses. Think about the type of people willingly sitting down to join a focus group at the mall, or talk to someone with a clipboard, or answer an ominous text or unknown number phone call. I'm guessing the same type of people who relentlessly call into CSPAN or AM Talk Radio -- people desperate to be heard. Ironic, I know, coming from me, a prolific commenter on the Banter -- but this forum affords the luxury of anonymity. WHO KNOWS who really is behind any given text, phone call, or clipboard survey. You're giving up valuable information that could be used against you. Do you really want the MAGA camp or Russians knowing you're a diehard Harris supporter? Imagine what they can do with that info whether or not he wins? Polls are garbage. All of them. You can't call an election like a play by play in Football. My biggest fear tomorrow is the Dark Web/Proud Boys militia organizing that might deploy select terrorist attacks at polling stations to intimidate Democratic turnout. That seems like a VERY realistic possibility and I can't imagine every governor has their National Guard ready to deploy like mine does.

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