The only math class I ever enjoyed was a college statistics class which actually made sense to me. So I spent my life reading polls, always checking the sample size and the margin of error, because I knew how important those are to accuracy, etc. But that same knowledge also served to let me know that modern polls are becoming horsehit.
I remember hearing Rush Limbaugh telling his listeners to either refuse to take polls, or to lie on them and say the opposite. He, and others, taught MAGAs to disrespect polls (cuz polls are the enemy of predatory politics).
Also, many of the "pollsters" are MAGA operatives in disguise. Add unreliable pollsters to unreliable respondents, and you end up with a weird poll that doesn't reflect reality at all.
I no longer enjoy tracking polls. Too many of them have been games.
Valid. Media Manipulation is the name of the game right now, but that's so inefficient. You throw out a bunch of propaganda, and hope something gets traction.
Soon, Data Manipulation will be more important. They'll start tracking all your date points, and soon they'll find something they can manipulate you over. They'll find some obscure crime to leverage you with, like a wrong statement on a Federal form interpreted as a deliberate lie, rather than a confused wrong answer. Or they'll identify patterns, and create laws to make those patterns a crime, and get you on that.
They'll threaten your family, job, your healthcare, your money, your home, your freedom, and they'll eventually get you to dance to their tune.