@mld-woody said:

Cal, you don't need to try and hide it. Polls matter if you agree with the results and they don't matter if you disagree. It's very obvious

Woody - all polls are indicators, small, possibly invalid indicators. We all LIKE the polls that affirm what we think, but polls can be flat out wrong. It is just wrong to put too much stock in them. I usually use polls to counter opposite opinions. Conflicting Polls are just indicators that something is wrong.

  Like the polls that had hillary winning bigly.

l;ike:

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-hillary-clinton-why-polls-wrong-2017-5

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/presidential-election-predictions-history/

@mld-woody said:

Cal, you don't need to try and hide it. Polls matter if you agree with the results and they don't matter if you disagree. It's very obvious

Grasshopper, the point is polls are usually wrong nowadays, since most people don't answer the phone if they don't know who is calling.

@calfoxwc said:

polls can matter a bit - but drawing conclusions is foolhardy.

Now, the most respectable, non-partisan polls can be correct..or not.

It's just a small indicator - not to be considered a major factor in decision-making, or not even that.

It seems to be a trend - I believe that is quite possible, given the "walk away" movement, and other stuff I've read.

For instances:

Stop making everything about race, or else Trump gets re-elected

Poll: Most Americans Believe Democrats Are "Outside The Mainstream ...

As a Democrat, I think the far left has definitely gone overboard. While I don't know a whole lot about this Kavanaugh guy, it sickens me this is happening to him. The squeaky wheel is definitely getting the grease on this story.

I'm no fan at all of Republicans, except on foreign policy (they seem much better there historically). I've never skipped an election, don't ever want too, but might consider it down the road. 

Now, the most respectable, non-partisan polls can be correct..or not.

It's just a small indicator - not to be considered a major factor in decision-making, or not even that.

It seems to be a trend - I believe that is quite possible, given the "walk away" movement, and other stuff I've read.

For instances:

Stop making everything about race, or else Trump gets re-elected

Pew Research Center Study Shows That Democrats Have Shifted To ...

Poll: Most Americans Believe Democrats Are "Outside The Mainstream ...

So the poll you linked to doesn't matter

So this thread shows nothing

the corruption and damage done to the democratic party of old, is being condoned by the

ignorant emotionalism  of liberal voters across the country. Like Tex, etc, they have NO FACTS, no historical

precedents... to support why they "feel" like they do. that is the trouble with living on emotion. Sure, every has emotions, but liberals ONLY work on emotions. So facts don't matter, the law only applies when they FEEL like it should, "innocent until proven guilty" only is valid when they FEEL like it, and like I posted in another thread - socialists historically since Lenin, are against violence, until they FEEL like THEY are allowed to use violence because they FEEL their cause is the only right one.

  When nazi-like arrogance goes insane, emotionalism says the ends justify any means necessary because that is how they FEEL.

Like reid, Tex's higgardly, comey, brennan, rosenstein, strzok, page, mueller, buttock and moochelle obaMao, Bruce Ohr and wife,  etc etc etc etc etc.It's a dangerous corrupt political mafia - they are fighting for their power and control and they believe all of America, via our gov, is their territory.

and all the little liberals just emote and get manipulated.

True reality exists - but it invalidates liberals emotional life platforms, so they distort it with lies and falsehoods.

I think I'll have blts for lunch again, still have a few tomatoes...

WSS

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Lets bring out those polls from October 2016.............

So do polls matter, or do they not matter? 

@calfoxwc said:

Americans all over the country see the dishonesty and dirty character assassination going on by the left.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/242906/republican-party-favorability-highest-seven-years.aspx

RealClearPolitics: 2018 Generic Congressional Vote

While Republicans have become significantly more positive about their party over the past year, Democrats' views of the Republican Party and their own Democratic Party have essentially not changed.

So basically, people that already considered themselves Republican are feeling themselves more now.