Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.
Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.
Elections are about choices.
I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
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