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Originally Posted by direwolf
Once again these polls are all over the place. Just a few days ago they were showing Harris was up in all three of those states. The day to day swings in the polls are really bizarre.
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Not really. Different polls have different biases, and with a tight race like this, it's to be expected that different polls will have differing results. If you want to know trends, it's better to follow either 538 or something which combines results of different polls, or keep watching the same pollster and see how their results move over time. (I was about to say it's not an apples to apples comparison, but it's more like... different pollsters put out different kinds of apples...)
That said; there are reports of poll fatigue especially in the battleground states. Only something like 3% of people even bother to answer to pollsters anymore, and I would expect that's bad for the reliability.
Really all signs are pointing towards the US campaign season just being too long, it's a massive distraction and a massive expense, and only serves to alienate people from politics.
Politics should mostly be about other things than elections and campaigns.