What's dumber: Not understanding which polls count and which ones don't? Or not understanding that not everyone understands which polls count and which ones don't?
https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1590495254691864576
Like most of the folks who say the polls suck, I don’t understand polls at all. So I just find the entire debate to be annoying.
I find it annoying but it's only because because don't in general understand odds, error, and margins. Yes that stuff isn't exactly intuitive, but 538 imo genuinely does their best to parse through that. People see 67% chance of winning and think it's like a grade and that's as good as a win, but obviously it's 2 out of 3, and they try and put it in those terms not percentages all the time, and/or if it's an actual favorite or a dead heat.
What's really annoying is seeing people doing the whisper campaign about "trying to find more dem votes" on some of these counts that are taking long, all without any context of method (mail in vs early vs in person), when the state even allows counting to begin, and who favors those votes. He'll look at Boeberts situation, she might actually pull it off but given rural and often snowed in areas it takes time for mail ballots you know, to be collected and counted
