To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.
The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.
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.
It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.
What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?
It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.
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