The weirdest thing for me in the hyperactive news cycle leading up to the midterms is the media’s obsession with minute, tenth-of-a-decimal-point changes in polling numbers. After the last few elections, especially 2016, showed that polls are vague stabs in the dark and probably massively misleading, I’m not sure why anyone cares about them.
Polls are useless. The percentages you see are from the people who didn’t hang up or refuse to answer a polling call; the people with land-lines who are on polling number call lists; the people who will cheerfully tell a stranger who they’re voting for. In other words, we’re seeing percentages of bored retirees, not a representative spread of the electorate.
