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"Mike Podhorzer on the darker side of horse race polling. www.weekendreading.net/p/why-pollin...

"We no longer have robust debates over policy – instead, those differences are argued in terms of whether a preferred policy will help Democrats win."

In other words, not the stakes but the odds."

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  "There's a darker side to the proliferation of polls - they have created an all you can eat buffet of "hard evidence" for commentators to support their preferred position in debates over party policies and strategy. Indeed, we no longer have robust debates over policy - instead, those differences are argued in terms of whether a preferred policy will help Democrats win.
  
  Finally, the most fundamental question is whether the future our children and grandchildren inherit from us is better served by our having the best possible ephemeral estimate of how many people support Harris or Trump today, or by our having the best possible public understanding of the full extent to which the freedoms we value are on the line."

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