All polls are garbage

Jagmeet Singh

Jagmeet Singh

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When they call numbers, they determine the receiver's district based on the exchange code: those 3 digits between your area code and line number (last 4).
While it's mostly accurate for old landlines, and massive rate centers like Sask, Manitoba and the territories. anyone can buy a number in any center these days. Anyone can buy VoIP numbers from anywhere in the world and receive the pollster calls. They were only good up to the early 2000s now any tree bark farmer from Tuvalu can register a number in Nunavut.
 
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The polls are heavily weighted with 55 plus people. Granted they are more engaged when it comes to voting but considering how disenfranchised younger demographics are you never know if they will actually turn out this election.

Im actually very surprised how stupid boomers are. I can't believe they skew so Liberal.
 
I'm 60, born at the tail end of the baby boom. Many of my friends are older than me and most are on the same page as the folks on this forum. None of them would vote Lieberal or NDP. That goes for most of the younger people I know, too. It isn't just younger people who are disenfranchised, either. Anyone, of any age, who has been paying attention can see what is going on. I hate all the boomer bashing because there are plenty of people in politics and business making decisions that effect our day to day lives who are younger, and in many cases much younger, than the boomer generation. To blame all our problems on one generation is ignorant and short sighted.
 
As someone in his mid-fifties I can tell you that most people who were adults before the internet came along have a blind trust in the kind of mass media generated narratives you find on television news, especially that coming from the CBC. Once the Boomers die off, the political scene in this country is going to change drastically
 
Has PP got the Tuvalu tree bark farmer vote sewn up?

You don’t fool me, @Jagmeet Singh, you are way smarter than Jagmeet Singh. I bet you don’t even wear a pink turban.
 
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