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Please, please, please stop talking about national polls

The popular vote is meaningless

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Ian Haworth
Jun 01, 2023
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I mentioned this last week, but I want to be more explicit: can we please stop talking about national polls — especially surrounding the Republican primary race?

Why? Because they’re completely meaningless.

Every time a Democrat loses a national election, what do they point to? The “popular vote”! They make the generalized democracy claim that because the…

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