Polling is a painful subject:
Accurate polling is needed to help candidates decide whether current
strategy needs amending.
I'm curious, why would a candidate tell their supporters to provide accurate information?
When polling there would seem to be three possible outcomes:
1. Accurate information will help you 2. Accurate information will neither help nor harm you 3. Accurate information will harm you
Since there would then appear to be only a 1/3% chance that accurate information will help you, why take the risk and provide it?
Of course, if you want to harm the candidate you dislike and know they trust polls, one of the best ways would be to provide them with inaccurate information.
Not clear to me whether forbidding polling immediately before elections would help or hurt.
It would seem to be just unnecessary.
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