• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Just because they got elected doesn’t mean we have to take this sitting down. The margin of victory was barely over 1%.

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      5 days ago

      well within the margin-of-error in pretty much any polling.

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        5 days ago

        What does the margin of error of a poll have to do with the outcome of an election? Like, I definitely think he’s got zero political mandate for anything because he barely won (and I think he only even got that because the Democratic party has a bunch of their voters stay home), but I am still pretty convinced that Trump did in fact win the election.

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        Yes because a poll is maybe a thousand people. It’s not when you poll millions of people.

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          Don’t know much about statistics I’m guessing. That’s more than enough of a sample size to represent a population. That’s why there’s a margin of error in polls.