re: #464 The Vicious Babushka

SMOTI is wetting his pants over the USC/LA Times “poll” that keeps track of the same 2,900 people since the beginning of the campaign.

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There was a movie, back in the 1950s, I think, about a town that had been deemed to be THE MOST average town in America, and pollsters and marketers would secretly visit to find out what the residents thought of this or that, to gauge what America in general would think.

Then it leaked out to the town that this was going on, and once the residents became conscious of how powerful their opinions were, they very quickly became a completely UNreliable predictor of national opinion.

I wonder how much of that is going on with the USC/LAT poll?