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And now here's Christopher Titus with the Armaged.

Hello, everyone. I'm Christopher Titus and this is the Armageddon update. Polling. No, it's not a new thing the British monarchy does to spice it up, shall we? It's something we used to determine where we are on the political landscape. Polsters, not to be confused again with peggers, Andrew, you enjoy this,

really. Polsters take a sample of the population and ask them questions. Who do you like in this election?

Are you happy with the current president? And this goes all the way back to 1936, where Tom Dewey was

announced as president when Roosevelt actually won.

Let me explain to you how polls work.

Now, the tried and tested method of a poll was to call on landlines using robocalls,

or, you know, and landlines.

But seriously, who has a landline?

Grandmas, shut-ins, and hoarders.

Hello, this is Marvin. Yes, I think Joe Biden is a demon. Can you come over and sit with me? I'm by myself. I love cheese. Half the polls use landlines. Google it. Phones used to be attached to the wall, people. Look it up. Oh, and some polls use 70% of landlines for their research.

Not an accurate sample, really. Poles are bullshit. They're calling old people who think Tucker Carlson

is a jaunty yacht commander and that the real men tan their backup singers. They aren't calling the

poor, the minorities or young people. You know, half the population.

Some polls do use robocalls to a cell phone, except there's an anti-robocall law.

So polls are an accurate, random, vague, and always off between two and eight points.

Yet, the news reports on them constantly because it's easy. But is it news or is it just a feedback

loop skewing what people think using bullshit unresearched random information? Look, if you tell me

the polls show people think the economy is bad, then you're going to think the economy is bad.

And then when they call you and ask you what you think of the economy, you're going to say,

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