This is the first poll taken after the conviction, and has us at 41% Biden/39% Trump

Actual voting preferences differ only slightly from one the same pollster took in early May, which had us at 35% Biden/36% Trump.

Having a solid sense of how the conviction will impact things will likely take a week or so as news percolates and people talk.

I’ll also note that these to polls are polls of adults, which tend to favor Trump by a little bit more than polls of registered voters or of likely voters.

Archived copies of the article: archive.today ghostarchive.org

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    5 months ago

    Polls are only good for confirmation bias.

    It’s trivial to game a poll via phrasing and user selection.

    Here on lemmy, polls are only used as evidence if it confirms the poster’s biases. Otherwise, they’re waved off as unreliable.