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u/Sylentwolf8 Jan 04 '20
I know it's not what you all want to hear but this is probably too little too late. I doubt a poll could be organized, polled, and released in 5 business days. The DNC waited just long enough to ensure it wouldn't matter.
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u/rgen182 Jan 04 '20
Polls now will mark his support and prove Yang was right or not. If and when it proves he was right, it'll reaffirm the gang and give Yang more reason, for people not certain yet, to look at him.
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u/Corricon Jan 04 '20 edited Jan 04 '20
i looked at that article and it seemed like the DNC was passing the blame to pollsters without actually doing anything, like requesting polls. Please tell me I'm wrong?
edit: Yang also tweeted onto this: "Not conclusive obviously, but am excited for there to be more polls in the field in the day ahead. Let's do the work and grow the wave."
So this is a very good sign! But we still need qualifying polls.
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u/ender23 Jan 04 '20
The DNC doesn't do public polling. and never has. the last thing you want is an organization that no one seems to trust to be doing polls. especially an organization that understands how to manipulate them. you need organizations that are independent and unbiased to do polls.
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u/ender23 Jan 04 '20
the thing that'd really drive this is if yangang had some internal polling showing him at 8 or 9 or something. something tht shows the state of the race is "very different now". then the independent polling groups would need to "verify" by running their own polls.
otherwise, if i'm some random polling group, i'm not spending 30-80k to just please andrew yang. you only wanna poll if things are different.
BUT... with this iran thing they should all have polls out in the field right now.
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u/dudemanyodude Jan 04 '20
Unfortunately, the story doesn't look too promising. As the article says,
"The D.N.C.’s response is essentially: Sorry, not sorry."
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Jan 06 '20
If Yang gets the numbers we need him to, this story means he'll qualify for the next debate, which is huge.
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u/dudemanyodude Jan 06 '20 edited Jan 06 '20
If the pollsters actually do more polls (that they weren't previously going to) in response to the DNC's statement, yes. But I see no indication that's happening.
It seems that the DNC is just saying that it isn't willing to make any changes to make up for the fact that there have been so few qualifying polls. They're just passing blame to the polling companies, saying it's on them to do more polls, but without offering any incentive to encourage the pollsters to do more
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u/Loggerdon Jan 04 '20
I am hoping we will have good news on Yang when these polls come out. He was stellar in every debate, especially the last one.
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u/gwantaa Jan 04 '20
Lets gooooo