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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuestion about pollsters and conflict of interest.
Do not pollsters make more money when when their polls show a close race?
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)That said there are pollsters that trend one party or the other, or in a few cases plainly out work for certain causes, and that goes for both sides by the by.
wtmusic
(39,166 posts)If there's a rout in the making, no one cares.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and both their internal and external polls
This is what a lot of your money goes when you give money to a candidate
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)desire.
wtmusic
(39,166 posts)there would be an incentive to create a close race, even if there wasn't one?
After all, gotta keep the peeps' peepers glued to the tube.
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)wtmusic
(39,166 posts)No party would pay for a poll that consistently showed their candidate getting his ass kicked.
That means either there's a huge incentive to make it a tight race, or I don't understand the profit structure. (?)