2022 midterm polls

[Eric the Green]

(11-10-2022, 05:18 PM)gabrielle Wrote:

(11-09-2022, 12:03 PM)David Horn Wrote: There is no doubt that the polls were less effective than usual...

Hello again.

Are they still surveying people by phone? Because most young people do not answer calls from unknown numbers. Could that perhaps have skewed the results to favor Republicans?

Also, are we seeing a voting revolution among youth? These late Millennials, Gen Zers or whatever, ditching the habit of the young to neglect the mid-terms? They supposedly came out in record numbers last election, too.

Hello to you too.

Yes, thanks to the horror of Trump and the urgings of Obama and Parkland activists like David Hogg at huge gun control rallies and others at the women's marches against Trump, young people have been coming out more often in midterms since 2018. The Millennials (and their actual members extend to 2003 or 2004 birth cohorts) have begun to live up to their civic archetype in this way.

I am no expert myself on the methods of pollsters. Some pundits thought the polls skewed Democratic in 2020 because Republicans were boycotting polls. Perhaps these trends balance out.