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Mine wasnt inane, although you might reasonably disagree with my points.


I was making a post about how how the parties feel they can impact the election most by getting more supporters out to vote rather than by persuading new voters.

In the process of explaining that I mentioned that polls show most voters have decided, so campains wont be able to change many voters minds.





Then Mr Insightful procededs to disagree with me on the account of "polls arent accurrate, because many people dont vote."


So why was that comment garbage?

1 By saying many people dont vote hes actually reinforcing my only point, that much is to be gained by convinced supporters to show up and vote.

2 The fact that many people dont show up to vote has nothing to do with how many are undecided.

3 Polling for election results(which was not even part of my topic) actually is rather sophisticated and acurrate anymore. The reason its so hard to predict results though is that the race is so close that the margin of difference is smaller than the margin or error.



I guess I was able to show that he was talking gibberish with out making a personal insult. Good for me :)