Wait You are still voting?

[thekingsmen]

I don't know. I'm not a political scientist.

Another L.

 

[SirReginald]

I don't know. I'm not a political scientist.

So, until we find something better we need independent exit polling data. My point stands. That's until something better comes along.

 

[SirReginald]

P.S. the electoral college needs to be abolished. I feel you should win by popular vote only.

 

[Dr. Acula]

There is more on he ballot than president. So yes.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Are you not paying attention?

To what? What a useless post.

 

[Dr. Acula]

P.S. the electoral college needs to be abolished. I feel you should win by popular vote only.

The issue with this is that this leads to the issue with majority tyranny that the electoral college was partially created to prevent. In essence If you rely on purely popular vote than all levels of government will only reflect the wishes of he most populated areas leaving less populated areas without much of a voice and being overruled every time. Someone in New York for example is going to have different needs and wants than say someone in Iowa. While electoral college does reflect population sizes to some extent from state to state, it allows less populated areas to have more a voice than without.


Not that I don't agree the electoral college can be replace or changed but raw popular vote shouldn't be the only measuring stick in my opinion. Minority votes should be protected.

 

[Taadow]

juries are made from voters...black people need to be on juries since we the ones always on trial...

Nope...that's how it used to be...but juries are made by people registered with the DMV.

 

[SirReginald]

The issue with this is that this leads to the issue with majority tyranny that the electoral college was partially created to prevent. In essence If you rely on purely popular vote than all levels of government will only reflect the wishes of he most populated areas leaving less populated areas without much of a voice and being overruled every time. Someone in New York for example is going to have different needs and wants than say someone in Iowa. While electoral college does reflect population sizes to some extent from state to state, it allows less populated areas to have more a voice than without.


Not that I don't agree the electoral college can be replace or changed but raw popular vote shouldn't be the only measuring stick in my opinion. Minority votes should be protected.

Okay, I can see your point with that. I do feel we need something that gives all parties an equal voice.

 

[thekingsmen]

To what? What a useless post.

Speak to yourself kid, you went thru the thread without reading anything. Bye.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Another L.

This only matters to people who need to put on airs for random people.

So, until we find something better we need independent exit polling data. My point stands. That's until something better comes along.

You can hold onto this all you want as long as you realize they're flawed. And shouldn't be held up as a legitimate metric for the voter base.

Exit polls have a much larger intrinsic margin for error than regular polls. This is because of what are known as cluster sampling techniques. Exit polls are not conducted at all precincts, but only at some fraction thereof. Although these precincts are selected at random and are supposed to be reflective of their states as a whole, this introduces another opportunity for error to occur (say, for instance, that a particular precinct has been canvassed especially heavily by one of the campaigns). This makes the margins for error somewhere between 50-90% higher than they would be for comparable telephone surveys.

Exit polls challenge the definition of a random sample. Although the exit polls have theoretically established procedures to collect a random sample — essentially, having the interviewer approach every nth person who leaves the polling place — in practice this is hard to execute at a busy polling place, particularly when the pollster may be standing many yards away from the polling place itself because of electioneering laws.

Exit polls may have problems calibrating results from early voting. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, exit polls will attempt account for people who voted before election day in most (although not all) states by means of a random telephone sample of such voters. However, this requires the polling firms to guess at the ratio of early voters to regular ones, and sometimes they do not guess correctly. In Florida in 2000, for instance, there was a significant underestimation of the absentee vote, which that year was a substantially Republican vote, leading to an overestimation of Al Gore’s share of the vote, and contributing to the infamous miscall of the state.

Exit polls may also miss late voters. By “late” voters I mean persons who come to their polling place in the last couple of hours of the day, after the exit polls are out of the field. Although there is no clear consensus about which types of voters tend to vote later rather than earlier, this adds another way in which the sample may be nonrandom, particularly in precincts with long lines or extended voting hours.

A high-turnout election may make demographic weighting difficult. Just as regular, telephone polls are having difficulty this cycle estimating turnout demographics — will younger voters and minorities show up in greater numbers? — the same challenges await exit pollsters. Remember, an exit poll is not a definitive record of what happened at the polling place; it is at best a random sampling.

P.S. the electoral college needs to be abolished. I feel you should win by popular vote only.

Good luck with that. A constitutional amendment is needed to change the electoral college. And that ain't happening.

 

[thekingsmen]

This only matters to people who need to put on airs for random people.

Make a statement about voting only to have no real solution to the problems, brehs. Make excuses cause you weak.

 

[notPsychosiz]

Also, this explains for those wishing to know why US is on a two-party system.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Make a statement about voting only to have no real solution to the problems, brehs. Make excuses cause you weak.

See, you're getting it wrong. I have no solution wrt exit polling. I'm just letting that dude know it's flawed. You're asking people why they're voting then threw up some lame video talking about gerrymandering along with some Donald Trump bullshyt. I corrected you wrt gerrymandering and Presidential elections and you just brushed it off. Now here we are.

 

[thekingsmen]

See, you're getting it wrong. I have no solution wrt exit polling. I'm just letting that dude know it's flawed. You're asking people why they're voting then threw up some lame video talking about gerrymandering along with some Donald Trump bullshyt. I corrected you wrt gerrymandering and Presidential elections and you just brushed it off. Now here we are.

There you are, and there you go....

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Speak to yourself kid, you went thru the thread without reading anything. Bye.

Your thread is bushes status, breh.